tobacco mosaic

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   a plant disease causing discoloration of the leaves of tobacco plants

   Broadermosaic

Questions about tobacco mosaic

What does tobacco mosaic mean?

tobacco mosaic means "a plant disease causing discoloration of the leaves of tobacco plants".

Is tobacco mosaic a common word?

tobacco mosaic 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.