blight : Idioms & Phrases

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alder blight

  • noun a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse)
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american blight

  • noun primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
    Eriosoma lanigerum; woolly apple aphid.
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Apple blight

  • noun a disease of apple trees
    apple canker.
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  • an aphid which injures apple trees. See Blight, n.
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bean blight

  • noun a blight of bean plants
    halo spot; bean blight.
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beet blight

  • noun a disease of beet plants
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blight canker

  • noun a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear
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blister blight

  • noun a disease of Scotch pines
  • noun a disease of tea plants
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cane blight

  • noun a disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants)
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celery blight

  • noun a fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant
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chestnut blight

  • noun a disease of American chestnut trees
    chestnut canker; chestnut-bark disease.
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coffee blight

  • noun a blight affecting the coffee plant
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collar blight

  • noun a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees
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fire blight

  • noun a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
    fire blight.
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halo blight

  • noun a blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses
  • noun a blight of bean plants
    halo spot; bean blight.
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head blight

  • noun a blight of the heads of cereals
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late blight

  • noun blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans
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leaf blight

  • noun any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant
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Moth blight

  • (Zoöl.), any plant louse of the genus Aleurodes, and related genera. They are injurious to various plants.
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needle blight

  • noun a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall
    needle cast; leaf cast.
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oak blight

  • noun a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods
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peach blight

  • noun a disease of trees bearing drupes
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Pear blight

  • noun a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
    fire blight.
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  • . (a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect (Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter. A. J. Downing. (b) (Zoöl.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose larvæ bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither.
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potato blight

  • noun a blight of potatoes
    potato disease; potato murrain; potato mold; potato mildew.
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rim blight

  • noun a disease of tea plants
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spinach blight

  • noun a disease of spinach plants
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spur blight

  • noun a disease of raspberries
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stem blight

  • noun a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants
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stripe blight

  • noun a disease of oats
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thread blight

  • noun a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus)
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tomato blight

  • noun a disease of tomato plants
    tomato yellows.
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twig blight

  • noun a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants
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walnut blight

  • noun a disease of English walnut trees
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