Panama disease
noun
: a destructive vascular disease of the banana caused by a fungus (Fusarium oxysporum cubense) and characterized by wilting and yellowing of leaves and death of affected shoots
Word History
Etymology
so called from its first occurrence in banana plantations of Panama
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