charbonn.
/ˈʃɑːbɒ̃/ 1. A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated. ? Obsolete.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.
2. Malignant pustule; = anthrax n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > anthrax
anthrax1789
miltsiekte1835
charbon1869
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 554 Among the veterinary surgeons of France [Melanosis] has obtained the name of charbon, or maladie charbonneuse.]
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 193.
1884 E. R. Turner in Law Times 77 310/2 The disease of which the calves died was anthrax or charbon.
3. A fungoid disease incident to the vine, and to orange and lemon trees.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > fruit or fruit plants
leaf curl1850
fly-speck1855
vine-mildew1855
vine-fungus1857
leaf blister1858
blister1864
peach-blister1866
charbon1882
crown rot1888
melanose1888
plum pocket1888
peach leaf curl1890
brown rot1894
mummy1902
sooty blotch1909
rhubarb disease1911
spur blight1915
red core1936
sclerotinia1950
Sigatoka1958
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 437/2 In damp valleys it [sc. the lemon] is liable to be attacked by a fungus called ‘charbon’ (Dematium monophyllum).
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 240/1 Anthracnose is the name usually given to a disease which was formerly known as ‘charbon’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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