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☆ blister rust

a destructive disease of white pines, caused by a fungus (Cronartium ribicola) that produces orange-colored blisters on the bark and branch tips

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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