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LATE BLIGHT

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LATE BLIGHT (noun)
  The noun LATE BLIGHT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LATE BLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


LATE BLIGHT (noun)


Sense 1late blight [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("late blight" is a kind of...):

blight (any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "late blight"):

celery blight (a fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant)


English Proverbs
"He goes a'sorrowing who goes a'borrowing."
(English proverb)
"What the people believe is true."
(Native American proverb, Anishinabe)
"Fight poison with poison."
(Chinese proverb)
"New brooms sweep clean"
(Dutch proverb)

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