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PEAR BLIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
Synonyms:
fire blight; pear blight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pear blight" is a kind of...):
leaf blight (any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pear blight"):
blight canker (a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear)
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