potato scab bacteria

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   cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue

   SynonymsStreptomyces scabies

   Broaderstreptomyces

Questions about potato scab bacteria

What does potato scab bacteria mean?

potato scab bacteria means "cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue".

What is another word for potato scab bacteria?

Close synonyms include Streptomyces scabies. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potato scab bacteria a common word?

potato scab bacteria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.