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TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tobacco mosaic virus mean? 

TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS (noun)
  The noun TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892)play

  Familiarity information: TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

TMV; tobacco mosaic virus

Hypernyms ("tobacco mosaic virus" is a kind of...):

plant virus (a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA)


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