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red ring disease — noun : a disease of the coconut palm caused by an eelworm (Aphelenchoides cocophilus) in which a cross section of the trunk shows a red ring … Useful english dictionary
ring rot — noun disease of tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum • Syn: ↑ring disease, ↑tobacco wilt • Hypernyms: ↑brown rot * * * noun 1. : decay in a log following closely the annual rings 2 … Useful english dictionary
Ring Out, Wild Bells — is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Published in 1850, the year he was appointed Poet Laureate, it forms part of In Memoriam, Tennyson s elegy to Arthur Henry Hallam, his sister s fiancé who died at the age of twenty two.Poem:Ring out, wild bells … Wikipedia
Ring a ring o' roses — Ring a ring o ros|es BrE Ring around the rosy AmE a children s singing game in which the children join hands and dance round in a circle singing: Ring a ring o roses/A pocket full of posies/A tishoo! A tishoo!/We all fall down. People believe it… … Dictionary of contemporary English
ring|spot — «RIHNG SPOT», noun, or ring spot, 1. a yellowish, necrotic discoloration in the form of spots or circles, symptomatic of a disease in plants. 2. any one of various plant diseases characterized by such discoloration: »tobacco ringspot … Useful english dictionary
ring spot — noun 1. : a lesion of plant tissue consisting of yellowish, purplish, or necrotic, often concentric rings 2. : any plant disease of which ring spots are the characteristic lesion: as a. : a virus disease of tobacco and related plants producing… … Useful english dictionary
Ring Trilogy — The Ring Trilogy is a series of novels by Koji Suzuki: Ringu ( Ring , 1991), Rasen ( Spiral , 1995) and Rupu ( Loop , 1998). Suzuki also wrote a collection of short stories, The Birthday (1999).Relationship to filmsThe Spiral film of 1998 was an… … Wikipedia
Disease, Wilson — An inherited disorder in which too much copper accumulates in the body. Although the accumulation of copper begins at birth, symptoms of the disorder appear later in life, between the ages of 6 and 40. A diagnostic feature of Wilson disease is… … Medical dictionary
ring vaccination — noun administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization • Hypernyms: ↑inoculating, ↑vaccinating * * *… … Useful english dictionary
Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses — Children s singing game, known throughout the English speaking world, and with many continental analogues. Nowadays, the game tends to be one of the first taught to children by adults, rather than being learnt from other children, and is… … A Dictionary of English folklore
