| 单词 | sun blight |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun blight sun blight n. (a) U.S. damage to a plant, esp. a fruit tree, caused by exposure to strong sunlight; spec. = sun scald n. 1a (now rare); †(b) Australian a disorder of the eye (probably photokeratitis) caused by or attributed to exposure to strong sunlight (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of psorophthalmia1585 psorophthalmy1656 xerophthalmia1656 ophthalmia neonatorum1835 photophobophthalmia1842 sun blight1848 sand-blight1852 sandy blight1869 blepharoconjunctivitis1890 pink-eye1897 klieg eyes1923 bung eye1933 shipyard eye1943 red-eye1952 1848 Horticulturalist Feb. 386/1 Sun-blight,..by far the most serious blight of the pear tree—that which first makes its appearance on the body of the large branches and the trunk of the trees. 1886 Trans. Illinois State Hort. Soc. 412 Are there any varieties of the apple that are free from sun-blight? 1889 McIvor Times (Heathcote, Victoria) 10 May (advt.) It [sc. H. E. Kugelmann's Eye Ointment] will cure all eye diseases, as Sun Blight, Sandy Blight, Watery Blight, Mattery or Humory Blight, Inflammation of Eyes and Lids, Chronic Opthalmia [sic], and all and every Eye Disease. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 215 Your eyes bad? A touch of sun-blight. Wear a pair of blue glasses until the inflammation goes. 1915 Special Crops Jan. 70/2 We all can see quite plainly how the root grows no more when sun-blight or other cause destroys the top. 1956 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 4 Apr. 1 (caption) The tree..had been weakened by sun blight in the dry summer of 1936. < as lemmas |
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