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Definition of Gummosis
1. Noun. Pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees.
2. Noun. Disease of citrus trees caused by the fungus Phytophthora citrophthora.
Definition of Gummosis
1. Noun. The formation of patches of a gummy substance on the surface of certain plants, particularly fruit trees, caused by sap oozing from wounds or cankers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gummosis
1. a disease of plants [n -MOSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gummosis
Literary usage of Gummosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"gummosis Various causal factors Like other stone-fruits, the plum is subject to
... In the Pacific Northwest a bacterial-gummosis has recently been studied, ..."
2. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"gummosis OF THE FlG TREE. ... has been thoroughly studied by Savastano*, who
recognized it as gummosis. This disease, to which old plants are more exposed ..."
3. Peach-growing by H. P. Gould (1918)
"gummosis gummosis is a rather general term applied to a group of troubles the
evidence of which is the exudation of gum from points on the trunk, branches, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"It is not known to what extent the cherry industry in other parts of the United
States suffers from the presence of gummosis. Little is heard from it in the ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Fungi and bacteria seem associated with the gummosis of ... A common form of
gummosis of cherry and other stone fruits is caused by the fungus ..."
6. Bulletin by University of Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station (1897)
"This appearance is due to the fact that the fungus is fruiting, 65 —Peach curl
and gummosis. producing the spores which are to disseminate the disease. ..."
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