uncoat (English, verb)
expansion: uncoat (third-person singular simple present uncoats, present participle uncoating, simple past and past participle uncoated)
Senses:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm
tags: intransitive
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: To remove the viral capsid of a virus, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: uncoats
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uncoating
tags: participle
present
form: uncoated
tags: participle
past
form: uncoated
tags: past