Home › Words › L › luteovirusluteovirusluteovirus means A virus of the Luteoviridae family that mainly infects plants via aphid vectors.EtymologyFrom the genus name, from Latin luteus (“yellow”), referring to the symptomatic yellowing of an infected plant.nounA virus of the Luteoviridae family that mainly infects plants via aphid vectors.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).