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Definition of Thread blight
1. Noun. A disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thread Blight
Literary usage of Thread blight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Tea: Its Culture and Manufacture. Being a Text Book on the by Claud Bald (1908)
"thread blight.—It has been stated by some writers that the cause of thread ...
Some years seem to favour the growth and spread of thread blight more than ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1873)
"What is the thread blight?—At a recent meeting of the Royal ... MJ Berkeley stated
that he had provisionally referred the thread blight which had attacked ..."
3. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1907)
"The name ' thread blight' is given on account of the very thin strands or films
of white mycelium that are firmly attached to the branches and under surface ..."
4. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1899)
"Indian tea-planters have known this most destructive fungus for at least the last
thirty years. The name ' thread blight' is given on account of the very ..."
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