what does Bemisia tabaci mean?

BEMISIA TABACI as NOUN

Meaning
- a strain 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
Synonym(s)
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Hypernyms(s) Bemisia tabaci is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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