Lexic.us

Definition of Cedar-apple rust

1. Noun. Rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cedar-apple Rust

Literary usage of Cedar-apple rust

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

1. Management Guide for Low-Input Sustainable Apple Production by Lorraine P. Berkett (1994)
"Some of the DRCs are not resistant to cedar apple rust (see Table 7 on p. ... The minimum wetting periods required for infection by cedar apple rust are ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"... again develops a mycelium and causes a rust disease which is very difficult to distinguish from that caused on the same plant by the cedar-apple rust. ..."

3. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1899)
"The round for the season with the cedar-apple rust runs as follows : The fungus exists in the winter as filaments interlaced between the abnormally large ..."

4. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1899)
"The round for the season with the cedar-apple rust runs as follows : The fungus exists in the winter as filaments interlaced between the abnormally large ..."

5. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration by Samuel Taylor Maynard (1915)
"The quince is usually free from serious diseases, but in very wet and hot seasons the cedar-apple rust, leaf-blight, and fire-blight sometimes does ..."

6. The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General by Governor, Connecticut Board of Finance and Control, Connecticut, Board of Finance and Control (1919)
"358 Cathartic Compound tablets '69 Cedar, insect and fungus attacking 64 Cedar-apple rust 65 ..."

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