LATE BLIGHT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

blight (any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting)

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

celery blight (a fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant)

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