Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem

[oedmarap]

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-rare-diverse-giant-viruses-unexpectedly.html

[excalibur]

Apparently not so rare as was thought. I wonder if filtering my backyard soil with the same method would yield any giant viruses.

[extrememacaroni → excalibur]

Virii

[anitil → extrememacaroni]

Common parlance would disagree - see 'this data', 'a myriad of' etc

[comex → anitil]

Virii isn’t even correct Latin. If it were a regular second declension noun, the plural would be viri (one i), but it’s not even that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in...