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Definition of Plant disease
1. Noun. A disease that affects plants.
Specialized synonyms: Blight, Leaf Disease, Rust, Blackheart, Black Knot, Black Rot, Black Spot, Bottom Rot, Brown Rot, Gummosis, Canker, Cotton Ball, Crown Gall, Crown Wart, Damping Off, Dieback, Dry Rot, Heartrot, Mosaic, Rhizoctinia Disease, Pink Disease, Potato Wart, Root Rot, Scorch, Sweet-potato Ring Rot, Sclerotium Disease, Sclerotium Rot, Dutch Elm Disease, Ergot, Foot Rot, Pinkroot, Wilt, Wilt Disease, Smut, Soft Rot, Yellow Dwarf, Yellow Spot
Definition of Plant disease
1. Noun. A disease that affects plants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plant Disease
Literary usage of Plant disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Guam Agricultural Experiment Station (1918)
"... Department of Agriculture, the writer was enabled to spend the month of March,
1918, in a survey of the plant disease situation on the island of Guam. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"... vegetables or seed is infested with any species of injurious insects, or their
eggs, larvae or pupa? or other animal or plant disease. pup:rt liable t ..."
3. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... 1523, 1642, 1687, 16%, 1704, 1752, 1771, 1801, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974)
plant disease SURVEY: REPORTS OF DISEASE OCCURRENCE AND SEVERITY 1852. ..."
4. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1904)
"Fruit rot is a plant disease. Fruit rot costs farmers millions of dollars annually.
One fruit grower lost sixty car loads of peaches in one year through rot ..."
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