streptomyces scabies

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   cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue

   Synonymspotato scab bacteria

   Broaderstreptomyces

Questions about streptomyces scabies

What does streptomyces scabies mean?

streptomyces scabies means "cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue".

What is another word for streptomyces scabies?

Close synonyms include potato scab bacteria. 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 streptomyces scabies a common word?

streptomyces scabies 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.