tobacco mosaic

noun

: any of a complex of virus diseases of tobacco and other chiefly solanaceous plants that in their typical manifestation take the form of mosaics

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

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tobacco mosaic

noun

: any of a group of virus diseases of tobacco and related plants