1. A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics
   "The hospital took extreme measures to prevent the spread of superbugs"
    
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
   "The superbug devastated the tomato harvest";
   - Bemisia tabaci, poinsettia strain
    
3. Bacterium or organism that has evolved resistance to drugs, pesticides, etc.
   "The hospital took extreme precautions to prevent the spread of the superbug"

Derived forms: superbugs

Type of: bacteria, bacterium, sweet-potato whitefly

Part of: Bemisia, genus Bemisia

Encyclopedia: Superbug