POINSETTIA STRAIN

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("poinsettia strain" is a kind of...):

sweet-potato whitefly (a variety of whitefly)

Holonyms ("poinsettia strain" is a member of...):

Bemisia; genus Bemisia (sweet-potato whitefly)

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