apple blight

noun

apple blight

noun

1

Synonym of fire blight.

Only a few years ago the disease known under the various names “pear blight,” “apple blight,” “twig blight,” “fire blight” and “blight” was almost unknown in this State.1911, Deane Bret Swingle, Pear and Apple Blight in Montana, page 1:

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