- chestnut-bark disease
- nouna disease of American chestnut trees• Syn: ↑chestnut blight, ↑chestnut canker• Hypernyms: ↑blight
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nounsee chestnut blight
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chestnut-bark disease
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bark disease — noun Etymology: bark (III) : chestnut blight … Useful english dictionary
chestnut blight — noun a disease of American chestnut trees • Syn: ↑chestnut canker, ↑chestnut bark disease • Hypernyms: ↑blight * * * noun or chestnut bark disease or … Useful english dictionary
chestnut canker — noun a disease of American chestnut trees • Syn: ↑chestnut blight, ↑chestnut bark disease • Hypernyms: ↑blight * * * noun see chestnut blight … Useful english dictionary
Chestnut blight — fungus Cankers caused by the fungal infection cause the bark to split. Scientific classification Kingdom: Fungi Phylum … Wikipedia
Chestnut — For other uses of chestnut , see Chestnut (disambiguation). For other uses of chinquapin or chinkapin , see Chinquapin (disambiguation). Chestnut Sweet Chestnut Castanea sativa Scientific clas … Wikipedia
chestnut blight — Plant Pathol. a disease of chestnuts, esp. the American chestnut, characterized by bark lesions that girdle and eventually kill the tree, caused by a fungus, Endothia parasitica. [1905 10, Amer.] * * * Plant disease caused by the fungus Endothia… … Universalium
chestnut — chestnutty, adj. /ches nut , neuht/, n. 1. any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata… … Universalium
chestnut blight — noun Date: circa 1909 a destructive disease of the American chestnut marked by cankers of the bark and cambium and caused by an imported fungus (Endothia parasitica syn. Cryphonectria parasitica) … New Collegiate Dictionary
chestnut blight — chest′nut blight n. ppa a disease of chestnut trees caused by a fungus, Endothia parasitica, characterized by bark lesions that eventually girdle the trunk and kill the tree • Etymology: 1905–10, amer … From formal English to slang
American Chestnut — Taxobox name = American Chestnut image width = 240px image caption = American Chestnut leaves and nuts regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Fagales familia = Fagaceae genus = Castanea species = C. dentata… … Wikipedia
