chestnut blight

chestnut blight

noun Plant Pathology.
a disease of chestnuts, especially the American chestnut, characterized by bark lesions that girdle and eventually kill the tree, caused by a fungus, Endothia parasitica.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism
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chestnut blight

noun
a disease of American chestnut trees 
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