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black arm

noun

, Plant Pathology.
  1. a type or phase of bacterial blight of cotton, characterized by black, elongated lesions on the stem and branches, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas malvacearum.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of black arm1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

Down below, Nab runs out a bare black arm into the sea, which even in the calmest weather angrily foams along the windward side.

Look, there comes one of them in from the end of a long black arm that pushes out like a bowsprit over the gulf!

"You don't really mean that, Dik," Alec Diger clamped a heavy black arm across his shoulders.

She set her strong white teeth in his black arm; but with a brutal gesture he flung her light weight from him.

A black arm was suddenly silhouetted across the shoulders of a white blouse, whose wearer received a reassuring hug.

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