The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mosaic \Mo*sa"ic\, n. [F. mosa["i]que; cf. Pr. mozaic, musec, Sp. & Pg. mosaico, It. mosaico, musaico, LGr. ?, ?, L. musivum; all fr. Gr. ? belonging to the Muses. See Muse the goddess.]
(Fine Arts) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
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Something resembling a mosaic[1]; something made up of different pieces, fitted together by design to form a unified composition.
aerial mosaic An aerial photograph of a large area, made by carefully fitting together aerial photographs of smaller areas so that the edges match in location, and the whole provides a continuous image of the larger area. Called also
mosaic map and photomosaic.
mosaic virus A type of plant virus that causes green and yellow mottling of leaves of a plant. A much-studied type is the tobacco mosaic virus, affecting the tobacco plant.
Wikipedia
Mosaic viruses are plant viruses that cause the leaves to have a speckled appearance. Mosaic virus is not a taxon.
Species include:
- beet mosaic virus
- plum pox virus (in the potyvirus genus)
- tobacco mosaic virus (in the tobamovirus genus)
- cassava mosaic virus (in the begomovirus genus)
- Cowpea mosaic virus
- Cucumber mosaic virus
- Alfalfa mosaic virus
- Panicum mosaic satellite virus
- Squash mosaic virus
- Tulip breaking virus
- Zucchini yellow mosaic virus
Usage examples of "mosaic virus".
You, for instance, couldn't catch tobacco mosaic virus, and the tobacco plant can't catch the measles virus.
Bunny visited also the vast pest-breeding establishment in the Rockies, where flies, roaches, mice, gnats, boll-weevils, the elm-rot fungus and the tobacco-mosaic virus were patiently raised to maximum virulence and dispatched by couriers to their proper places all over the world.