| 单词 | potato disease |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato disease potato disease n. a disease affecting potato plants; spec. = potato blight n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > potatoes potato blight1845 potato disease1845 potato murrain1845 potato rot1845 potato curl1887 late blight1893 black scab1908 wart disease1915 black wart1950 1845 A. H. Clough Corr. 2 Nov. (1957) I. 118 Potato-disease and abolition of corn-laws. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 153 He is equally at home with the potato-disease. 1909 B. M. Duggar Fungous Dis. Plants x. 165 The late blight and rot of the potato is so generally known that frequently this malady is simply called the ‘potato disease’. 1959 A. Beaumont Dis. Farm Crops iv. 66 Diseases of potatoes... Common scab (Actinomyces scabies). This is probably the commonest potato disease, particularly in the drier parts of England. 1991 Potato Marketing Materials (BNC) When a potato disease called blight devastated the Irish crop in 1845, 1846 and again in 1848 the entire population faced famine and starvation. < as lemmas |
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