| 单词 | plum pocket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplum pocket plum pocket n. (chiefly in plural) a disease of plums caused by the fungus Taphrina pruni (in Europe) or T. communis (in North America), in which the seed fails to develop and the fruit becomes either distorted and shrivelled or swollen; cf. pocket plum n. at pocket n. and adj. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ 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 1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 738 Taphrina pruni Tul., on the fruit of Prunus domestica L., forming ‘the so-called “plum pockets”’. 1910 F. L. Stevens Dis. Econ. Plants 141 The name ‘plum pocket’ or ‘plum bladder’, arises from the curious hollow deformity of the plum, caused by the fungus. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) III. 1612/1 A curious trouble on Plum fruits is the one called Pocket Plum, Bladder Plum, Plum Pockets, &c., in which the young fruits grow long and swollen like long bladders and very one-sided in shape. 2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. 78 His crop was attacked by plum pocket, a fungal disease that turns the fruit into hollow useless things. < as lemmas |
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