rugose mosaic

noun

: a highly destructive virus disease of potatoes due to the combined action of the viruses responsible for veinbanding and latent virus disease and causing dwarfed, wrinkled, and mottled leaves, stunting, and premature death compare potato mosaic

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

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