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DIEBACK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("dieback" is a kind of...):
plant disease (a disease that affects plants)
Derivation:
die back (suffer from a disease that kills shoots)
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