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tobacco mosaic virus

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An RNA virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco and some other plants and is widely used in research in virology and genetics.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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