CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA

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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 ("Cronartium ribicola" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Cronartium ribicola" is a member of...):

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

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