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Definition of Apple blight
1. Noun. A disease of apple trees.
Definition of Apple blight
1. Noun. type of aphid harmful to apple trees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Blight
Literary usage of Apple blight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Commissioners [and Appendices A to S] by Ontario Agricultural Commission (1880), Samuel Casey Wood (1881)
"It is evident that, in the opinion of these experienced culturists, the apple
blight is no serious impediment to successful apple growing. ..."
2. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1892)
"Q. — What is the cause of the apple blight ? PROF. ... Goff, did you ever notice
the apple blight traveling in the direction of certain winds? ..."
3. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology: A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in by Harry Luman Russell (1905)
"Pear and apple blight. The best known bacterial plant disease is the "fire blight"
that is also known as the pear or apple blight. ..."
4. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1904)
"apple blight IN REVIEW. PROF. WM. ROBERTSON, MINN. ... Literature on pear blight,
frozen-sap blight, apple blight, fire blight, twig blight and blossom ..."