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TOMATO STREAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tomato streak mean? 

TOMATO STREAK (noun)
  The noun TOMATO STREAK has 1 sense:

1. disease of a wide range of plants (tomatoes, potatoes, peas) resulting from a mixed infection of potato and tomato mosaicplay

  Familiarity information: TOMATO STREAK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOMATO STREAK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Disease of a wide range of plants (tomatoes, potatoes, peas) resulting from a mixed infection of potato and tomato mosaic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tomato streak" is a kind of...):

yellow spot (any of several fungous or viral diseases characterized by yellow spotting on the leaves)


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