apple rust

apple rust
noun
rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc
• Hypernyms: ↑rust, ↑rust fungus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gymnosporangium, ↑genus Gymnosporangium

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noun
1. : any of several diseases caused by fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium; especially : a destructive fungous disease especially of the apple but also attacking pears and quinces that is caused by a rust (G. juniperi-virginianae) having its pycnial and aecial stages on the leaves and fruit of the apple and the telial stage on species of Juniperus, especially a common red cedar (J. virginiana)
2. : the fungus causing apple rust — called also cedar apple rust, cedar rust; compare cedar apple

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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