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PLANT VIRUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("plant virus" is a kind of...):

virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant virus"):

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

viroid; virusoid (the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat)

onion yellow-dwarf virus (the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants)

potato yellow-dwarf virus (the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants)

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