anthracnose
anthracnose
Definition
an·thrac·nose (an t̸hrak′nōs′)
noun
any of various fungus diseases of plants, in which roundish dead spots appear chiefly on leaves or fruit
Etymology: < Gr anthrax, coal, carbuncle + nosos, disease
anthracnose
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- cause: This is the first report on the leaf anthracnose caused by C.
Preposition: on
- range: Colletotrichum species cause anthracnose on a wide range of plants.
Modifies a noun
- disease: Fortunately, there has been no sign of Cornus anthracnose disease.
- fungus: Joanne Perkins, University of Birmingham, to work with Jonathan Green on development of appressoria of the bean anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum.
Noun used with modifier
- bean: New diagnostic morphological criteria have been found, and these are used routinely to rapidly confirm the identify the bean anthracnose isolates.
- leaf: This is the first report on the leaf anthracnose caused by C.
- tree: It is said to be particularly resistant to plane tree anthracnose.
- plane: It is said to be particularly resistant to plane tree anthracnose.
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