Associations to the word «Superbug»

Wiktionary

SUPERBUG, noun. (colloquial) A strain of bacteria that has become resistant to many antibiotics.
SUPERBUG, noun. (US) An insect, Bemisia tabaci, that is a serious pest.

Dictionary definition

SUPERBUG, noun. A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics.
SUPERBUG, noun. 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope