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SUPERBUG
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I. (noun)
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
Synonyms:
Bemisia tabaci; poinsettia strain; superbug
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("superbug" is a kind of...):
sweet-potato whitefly (a variety of whitefly)
Holonyms ("superbug" is a member of...):
Bemisia; genus Bemisia (sweet-potato whitefly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("superbug" is a kind of...):
bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)
