HAIRY ROOT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hairy root" is a kind of...):

crown gall (a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground)

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