PEAR BLIGHT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees

Synonyms:

fire blight; pear blight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

leaf blight (any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant)

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

blight canker (a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear)

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