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Definition of Anthracnose
1. n. Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.
Definition of Anthracnose
1. Noun. Any of several fungal diseases that affect many plants and trees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anthracnose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthracnose
Literary usage of Anthracnose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"Upon artificial media it grows slowly and with less vigor than is commonly the
case with many species of anthracnose. Control. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Some Studies on the Bean anthracnose: Dr. CW EDGERTON, Louisiana State ...
This includes the results of two years' study on the bean anthracnose under ..."
3. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"The disease under consideration is generally known as anthracnose, which name
was given it in 1887. Prior to that date it was called cane-rust. ..."
4. Diseases of Economic Plants by Frank Lincoln Stevens, John Galentine Hall (1921)
"anthracnose OF CEREALS anthracnose 329 (Colletotrichum cereale Manns). — Upon
many cereals and forage crops, as rye, wheat, oats, orchard grass, timothy, ..."
5. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"anthracnose.—This disease attacks the plant in all stages of growth. It produces
death to the young seedling much as in the case of anthracnose of field ..."
6. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"No union of threads corresponding to a genuine act of fertilization was found.
NOTES UPON AN anthracnose. By Prof. BYRON D. HALSTED, New Brunswick, ..."
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