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BLISTER RUST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host

Synonyms:

blister rust; Cronartium ribicola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blister rust" is a kind of...):

rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)

Holonyms ("blister rust" is a member of...):

Cronartium; genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally

Synonyms:

blister rust; white-pine rust; white pine blister rust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("blister rust" is a kind of...):

rust (a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi)

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