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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An RNA virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco and some other plants and is widely used in research in virology and genetics.
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- noun the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892)
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