peach yellows

peach yellows
noun plural but usually singular in construction
: a destructive virus disease of the peach producing yellowing or browning and curling up of the leaves, dwarfing of the branches, the growth of willowlike sterile shoots, dwarfing and premature ripening of fruit, and in a few years death

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peach yellows,
a virus disease of some fruit, especially peaches, that causes leaves to become dwarfed and shrivel and the fruit to ripen prematurely.

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