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    SUPERBUG

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 poinsettiasplay

    Synonyms:

    Bemisia tabaci; poinsettia strain; superbug

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("superbug" is a kind of...):

    sweet-potato whitefly (a variety of whitefly)

    Holonyms ("superbug" is a member of...):

    Bemisia; genus Bemisia (sweet-potato whitefly)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibioticsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("superbug" is a kind of...):

    bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)

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