Definition of Tylenchus tritici

1. Noun. Small roundworm parasitic on wheat.

Exact synonyms: Wheat Eel, Wheat Eelworm, Wheatworm
Generic synonyms: Nematode, Nematode Worm, Roundworm
Group relationships: Genus Tylenchus, Tylenchus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tylenchus Tritici

Twofish
Twort
Twort-d'Herelle phenomenon
Twort phenomenon
Twydell
Twyla Tharp
Ty
Tyan Shan
Tyburn ticket
Tyburn tickets
Tyche
Tychonic
Tyke
Tylenchidae
Tylenchus
Tylenchus tritici (current term)
Tylenol
Tyler
Tylerism
Tylerize
Tympanuchus
Tympanuchus cupido
Tympanuchus cupido cupido
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Tyndale
Tyndall
Tyndall blue
Tyndall effect
Tyndall phenomenon
Tyndall stone

Literary usage of Tylenchus tritici

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"... of the United States is identical with the form on wheat has not been determined. Some European investigators, however, regard Tylenchus tritici as a ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"Tylenchus tritici Need, is the cause of " ear-cockles " in corn. These take the form of brown or purple galls, which replace the grains of corn, ..."

3. The Natural Conditions of Existence as They Affect Animal Life by Carl Semper (1883)
"Most Nematoda live as parasites in animals, but a few live in plants—Tylenchus tritici, for instance, which lives in the flower of wheat, ..."

4. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"Ear-cockles' of wheat (Tylenchus tritici, Bastian) is sometimes responsible for a considerable amount of shortage in the wheat crop. ..."

5. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... (a) the larva lives in earth, the sexual form in plants, eg Tylenchus tritici in the ear of wheat, T. putrefaciens in the Onion ; (3) the larva lives in ..."

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