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BEMISIA TABACI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bemisia tabaci mean?
• BEMISIA TABACI (noun)
The noun BEMISIA TABACI has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: BEMISIA TABACI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Bemisia tabaci; poinsettia strain; superbug
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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