English > blight: 3 senses > noun 2, state| Meaning | Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting. |
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| Narrower | alder blight | A disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse) |
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| apple blight, apple canker | A disease of apple trees |
| beet blight | A disease of beet plants |
| blister blight | A disease of tea plants |
| blister blight | A disease of Scotch pines |
| cane blight | A disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants) |
| chestnut blight, chestnut canker, chestnut-bark disease | A disease of American chestnut trees |
| coffee blight | A blight affecting the coffee plant |
| collar blight | A disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees |
| halo blight, halo spot, bean blight | A blight of bean plants |
| halo blight | A blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses |
| head blight | A blight of the heads of cereals |
| late blight | blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans |
| leaf blight | Any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant |
| peach blight | A disease of trees bearing drupes |
| potato blight, potato mold, potato disease, potato mildew, potato murrain | A blight of potatoes |
| rim blight | A disease of tea plants |
| spinach blight | A disease of spinach plants |
| spur blight | A disease of raspberries |
| stem blight | A fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
| stripe blight | A disease of oats |
| thread blight | A disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus) |
| tomato blight, tomato yellows | A disease of tomato plants |
| twig blight | A disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants |
| walnut blight | A disease of English walnut trees |
| Broader | plant disease | A disease that affects plants |
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| Spanish | plaga |
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| Catalan | plaga |
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| Verbs | blight | cause to suffer a blight |
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