tobacco mosaic virus

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

   SynonymsTMV

   Broaderplant virus

Questions about tobacco mosaic virus

What does tobacco mosaic virus mean?

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

What is another word for tobacco mosaic virus?

Close synonyms include TMV. 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 tobacco mosaic virus a common word?

tobacco mosaic virus 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.