| NOUN | animal | sweet-potato whitefly | a variety of whitefly |
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| Meaning | A variety of whitefly. | |
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| Member of | Bemisia, genus Bemisia | sweet-potato whitefly |
| Narrower | cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
| superbug, Bemisia tabaci, 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 | |
| Broader | whitefly | minute insect that feeds on plant juices |
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