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Noun: poinsettia strain
  1. A strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
    - superbug, Bemisia tabaci

Derived forms: poinsettia strains

Type of: sweet-potato whitefly

Part of: Bemisia, genus Bemisia

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