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tristeza

tristeza noun: a damaging viral disease of citrus plants, caused by Closterovirus.

Noun

tristeza (uncountable)

  1. A damaging viral disease of citrus plants, caused by Closterovirus.

Origin of tristeza

Borrowed from Portuguese tristeza (“sadness”), referring to the devastation it caused in South America in the 1930s.

Questions about tristeza

What does tristeza mean?
Tristeza means a damaging viral disease of citrus plants, caused by Closterovirus.
What part of speech is tristeza?
Tristeza is a noun.

Words near tristeza in the dictionary

  1. tristesse
  2. tristetrahedral
  3. tristetrahedron
  4. tristetraprolin
  5. tristetraprolins
  6. tristeza
  7. tristful
  8. tristfully
  9. tristfulness
  10. Tristian
  11. tristich

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