Tobacco-mosaic
noun, Plant Pathology.
1.
a disease of the nightshade family of plants, particularly tobacco and tomato, caused by the tobacco mosaic virus and characterized by mottled leaves and yellowed, necrotic plants.
Read Also:
- Tobacco-mosaic-virus
noun 1. a retrovirus causing mosaic disease in members of the nightshade family. Abbreviation: TMV. tobacco mosaic virus noun 1. the virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco and related plants: its discovery in 1892 provided the first evidence of the existence of viruses TMV tobacco mosaic virus n. A retrovirus that causes a disease […]
- Tobacconist
noun 1. a dealer in tobacco, especially the owner of a store that sells pipe tobaccos, cigarettes, and cigars. noun 1. (mainly Brit) a person or shop that sells tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, etc
- Tobacco-road
noun 1. a squalid and impoverished rural community. Tobacco Road definition (1932) A novel by the American author Erskine Caldwell, about a family of sharecroppers (see sharecropping) from Georgia and their many tragedies.
- Tob-adonijah
good is Jehovah, my Lord, a Levite sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people of Judah in the law (2 Chr. 17:8).
- Tobago
noun 1. an island in the SE West Indies, off the NE coast of Venezuela: formerly a British colony in the Federation of the West Indies; now part of the independent republic of Trinidad and Tobago. 116 sq. mi. (300 sq. km). noun 1. an island in the SE Caribbean, northeast of Trinidad: ceded to […]