English Explanatory Dictionary

tristeza

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

tristeza

Etymology

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

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