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PLANT VIRUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plant virus" is a kind of...):
virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant virus"):
TMV; tobacco mosaic virus (the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892))
viroid; virusoid (the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat)
onion yellow-dwarf virus (the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants)
potato yellow-dwarf virus (the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants)
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