superbug (n.)

  1. a strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics

  2. 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

    [ Syn: bemisia tabaci , poinsettia strain ]

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