Definition of Plant disease

1. Noun. A disease that affects plants.


Definition of Plant disease

1. Noun. A disease that affects plants. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plant Disease

plant-cane
plant-canes
plant-eating
plant-eating(a)
plant RNase
plant antitoxin
plant bug
plant casein
plant closing
plant community
plant components
plant department
plant dermatitis
plant disease (current term)
plant epidermis
plant families and groups
plant family
plant fiber
plant fibre
plant food
plant genus
plant growth regulators
plant growth substances
plant hopper
plant hormone
plant hormones
plant indican

Literary usage of Plant disease

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

1. Annual Report by Guam Agricultural Experiment Station (1918)
"... Department of Agriculture, the writer was enabled to spend the month of March, 1918, in a survey of the plant disease situation on the island of Guam. ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"... vegetables or seed is infested with any species of injurious insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupa? or other animal or plant disease. pup:rt liable t ..."

3. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... 1523, 1642, 1687, 16%, 1704, 1752, 1771, 1801, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974) plant disease SURVEY: REPORTS OF DISEASE OCCURRENCE AND SEVERITY 1852. ..."

4. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1904)
"Fruit rot is a plant disease. Fruit rot costs farmers millions of dollars annually. One fruit grower lost sixty car loads of peaches in one year through rot ..."

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