non-persistentadj.
/ˌnɒnpəˈsɪst(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌnɑnpərˈsɪst(ə)nt/ That does not persist, esp. in the course of phylogeny or ontogeny, or in the environment; (Botany) designating or relating to plant viruses that are carried only briefly and superficially on the mouthparts of insect vectors (also called non-circulative).
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non-persistent1875
bacteriophagic1922
bacteriophagal1927
Shope1934
adenoviral1957
Sendai1958
EB1964
polioviral1965
Marburg1968
oncornaviral1972
xenotropic1973
retroviral1977
flaviviral1978
LAV1983
lentiviral1985
1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism 113 Is it here meant..that the persistent are contrasted with the non-persistent parts?
1886 Philos. Trans. 1885 (Royal Soc.) 176 224 The dentation of these non-persistent sutures is very strong, as in the Salamander's skull.
1912 Bot. Gaz. 53 177 The branch scars above mentioned may be interpreted as the scars of such aborted or non-persistent branches.
1946 Nature 13 July 64/1 Beet mosaic virus is an example of a group of viruses which are non-persistent in their insect vectors.
1975 Facts on File 26 July 536 It condoned experimental use of sheep collars containing sodium cyanide, a lethal but non-persistent poison.
1984 D. A. Roberts & C. W. Boothroyd Fund. Plant Pathol. (ed. 2) ix. 120 Circulative and stylet-borne viruses were formerly classified as persistent and nonpersistent viruses, respectively.
1991 Geo Info Syst. Oct. 50/3 (caption) Width of cattail beds from the shoreline to the outer edge of open water or beginning of nonpersistent macrophyte beds.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1875