Noun: poinsettia strain
- 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
"The poinsettia strain devastated the tomato harvest";
- superbug, Bemisia tabaci
Derived forms: poinsettia strains
Type of: sweet-potato whitefly
Part of: Bemisia, genus Bemisia