poinsettia strain

poinsettia strain
noun
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
Syn: ↑superbug, ↑Bemisia tabaci
Hypernyms: ↑sweet-potato whitefly
Member Holonyms: ↑Bemisia, ↑genus Bemisia

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