club-root

club·root

[kluhb-root, -root]
noun
Plant Pathology. a disease of cabbage and other cruciferous plants, characterized by enlarged, malformed roots, caused by a slime mold, Plasmodiophora brassicae.

Origin:
1840–50; club + root1

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