tobacco mosaic virus

American  

noun

1. a retrovirus causing mosaic disease in members of the nightshade family. TMV

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tobacco mosaic virus British  

noun

1.  TMV.  the virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco and related plants: its discovery in 1892 provided the first evidence of the existence of viruses

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Etymology

Origin of tobacco mosaic virus

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The two collaborated on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus.

From Nature

With Franklin, Dr. Klug worked on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus, a springboard to learning more about molecular structure.

From Washington Post

Scientists were only first able to visualize a virus, the tobacco mosaic virus, after the 1931 invention of the electron microscope.

From Scientific American

Also aiding our cause was my work on tobacco mosaic virus.

From Literature

Large Scale Biology pioneered ways to use the tobacco mosaic virus to get foreign genes into plants, which would then reproduce the desired proteins.

From Seattle Times