HEAD BLIGHT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blight of the heads of cereals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("head blight" is a kind of...):

blight (any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head blight"):

wheat scab (a disease of the heads of wheat plants)

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