Definition of Potato wart

1. Noun. Fungous disease causing dark warty spongy excrescences in the eyes of potato tubers.

Generic synonyms: Plant Disease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potato Wart

potato onion
potato pancake
potato peel
potato peelings
potato race
potato salad
potato salads
potato scab bacteria
potato skin
potato starch
potato starches
potato tree
potato tuber moth
potato tuberworm
potato vine
potato wart (current term)
potato wart fungus
potato worm
potato yellow-dwarf virus
potato yellow dwarf
potatobug
potatobugs
potatoe
potatoes
potatoey
potatolike
potatory
potatos
potayto, potahto
potbellied

Literary usage of Potato wart

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

1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"A circular for the practical gardener and farmer giving the history and distribution of the potato wart disease in Germany, and an account of the life ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"potato wart.—This is Quarantine No. 3, promulgated September 20, 1912, to prevent the introduction into the United States of the disease known as "potato ..."

3. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1914)
""potato wart.—This is Quarantine No. 3, promulgated September 20, 1912, to prevent the introduction into the United States of the disease known as "potato ..."

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