Definition of Peach blight

1. Noun. A disease of trees bearing drupes.

Generic synonyms: Blight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peach Blight

peacemaking
peacemakings
peacemonger
peacemongering
peacemongers
peacenik
peaceniks
peaces
peacetime
peacetimes
peach
peach-leaved willow
peach-wood
peach bell
peach bells
peach blight (current term)
peach blossom
peach ice cream
peach kernel oil
peach melba
peach orchard
peach palm
peach palms
peach pit
peach sauce
peach tree
peachblow
peachblows
peached
peachen

Literary usage of Peach blight

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)
"SMITH, RE California peach blight. Cal. Agl. Exp. Sta. Built. 191: 73- 100. figs. /-/d. 1906. Habitat relations. It is somewhat difficult to determine the ..."

2. Peach-growing by H. P. Gould (1918)
"In their absence, the life cycle is broken and the disease cannot perpetuate itself. California peach-blight or coryneum-blight (Coryneum ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"Characterized by a dying of the buds during the early winter and caused very largely by the fungus responsible for peach blight. Similar trouble Is caused ..."

4. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"Cankers of peach blight on First Year Growth. accompanied later by a splitting of the bark on the branches of the current year's growth. ..."

5. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1921)
"peach blight.—The most serious disease which has thus far stricken the peach in California is locally known as the "peach blight," the work of a shot-hole ..."

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