noun
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: ↑superbug, ↑Bemisia tabaci
• Hypernyms: ↑sweet-potato whitefly
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bemisia, ↑genus Bemisia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.