TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

TMV; tobacco mosaic virus

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Nouns denoting animals

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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