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Definition of Head blight
1. Noun. A blight of the heads of cereals.
Definition of Head blight
1. Noun. (agriculture) a blight afflicting the seed heads or inflorescences of cereal crops ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Head Blight
Literary usage of Head blight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"Get on your knees, and with your hands raised to heaven, call down imprecations
on your head, blight upon your prospects, and perdition to your soul, ..."
2. Fusarium-blight (scab) of Wheat and Other Cereals by Dimitŭr Atanasov (1920)
"... on the University plots, the results obtained on this field indicate clearly
the existence of a difference in varietal susceptibility to head- blight. ..."
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