CROWN GALL

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Meaning:

A bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("crown gall" is a kind of...):

plant disease (a disease that affects plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crown gall"):

hairy root (a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots)