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BEMISIA TABACI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
Synonyms:
Bemisia tabaci; poinsettia strain; superbug
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bemisia tabaci" is a kind of...):
sweet-potato whitefly (a variety of whitefly)
Holonyms ("Bemisia tabaci" is a member of...):
Bemisia; genus Bemisia (sweet-potato whitefly)
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