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BLACK SPOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several fungous diseases of plants that produce small black spots on the plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("black spot" is a kind of...):
plant disease (a disease that affects plants)
Context examples:
But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim—him above all.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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