单词 | fly-speck |
释义 | > as lemmasfly-speck fly-speck n. (a) a stain produced by the excrement of an insect; also figurative; (b) a plant disease, esp. of apples and pears, caused by the fungus Leptothyrium pomi; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having fungal disease rustyc1503 smutty1597 smutched1620 slaina1642 smutty1667 sooty1697 rusted1763 spurred1763 smutted1766 leaf spot1846 fly-speck1855 ergotized1860 tagged1892 mummied1893 mummified1895 conky1905 rhynchosporium1918 Alternaria1924 Sigatoka1925 pasmo1926 sclerotinia1926 oak wilt1942 silver-leaf1946 wildfire1971 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 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot > made by fly fly-spot1851 fly-speck1855 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Fly-speck. 1865 H. B. Stowe House & Home Papers 290 I would shut my eyes on fly-specks, and open them on the beauties of Nature. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 15 July 2/1 Even your Caesar Borgia is but a fly-speck in the infinite. 1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 113 Lookin' like a fly-speck on a new tablecloth. 1939 H. Wormald Dis. Fruits & Hops v. 103 Frequently associated with Sooty Blotch, but sometimes occurring alone, are groups of black, circular dots which from their size and appearance are known as Fly Specks. 1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 75 The speck, Tasmania. Also, ‘the Fly Speck’. 1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. 126/2 The fly speck fungus produces groups of round black dots on apples and sometimes on pears and plums. 1961 Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 44 304 The Micropeltaceae or ‘fly~speck’ fungi are treated by Prof. Batista as one of the seven families of the Microthyriales. < as lemmas |
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