VIRULENT

PRONUNCIATION: (VIR-yuh-luhnt, -uh-)

MEANING: adjective
1. Bitterly hostile.
2. Highly infective.
3. Extremely dangerous.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin virus (poison). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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[Are we sure? I thought it had something to do with vir, meaning "man," as in "virile".}
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VIRUSENT - a sub-cellular microorganism afflicting Tolkien's tree creatures

MIRULENT - that Russian Space Station I borrowed from you a while back