BROWN ROT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of certain fungous diseases of plants characterized by browning and decay of tissues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("brown rot" is a kind of...):

plant disease (a disease that affects plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brown rot"):

brown rot gummosis; gummosis (disease of citrus trees caused by the fungus Phytophthora citrophthora)

ring disease; ring rot; tobacco wilt (disease of tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum)

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