plant virus
- noun
- /plænt ˈvaɪrəs/
- Specialized
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virus vegetal
- Farmers often struggle to control the spread of plant viruses in their fields each growing season.
And the most common virus in human feces is a plant virus that infects Peppers.
- And the most common virus in human feces is a plant virus that infects Peppers.
Examples
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Fast, accurate tests, based on antibody testing technology, were developed for trichinosis in pigs, for anaplasmosis, a costly parasitic disease in cattle, and for plant viruses and viroids.
Academic text (2001) -
Your microbiome contains a plant virus known to infect blueberries, which could lead to an inflammatory response.
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Worse yet, they are prodigious spreaders of plant viruses.
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This is why humans are unlikely to be infected by plant viruses and why bees don't catch the flu.
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Agricultural studies have shown that plant viruses can significantly reduce crop yields.
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To protect their harvest, farmers must identify and manage plant viruses that affect their crops.
Synonyms
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3.2
A very small germ that can only live inside cells and often causes illness
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Morphology
The meaning 'a virus that infects plants' is directly and compositionally built from 'plant' + 'virus', with no idiomatic shift. This noun-noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Plant virus comes from joining the words plant and virus, and it creates the picture of a tiny invisible germ moving from leaf to leaf, like a cold in people. That's why a plant virus means a virus that 'infects' plants.