Also in plural. A disease of wheat and other cereal plants caused by the parasitic nematode Anguina tritici, in which the grains are replaced by…

A disease of wheat and other cereal plants caused by the parasitic nematode Anguina tritici, in which the grains are replaced by small, dark…

British regional. A disease of wheat caused by the nematode Anguina tritici, characterized by small galls on the grains; = ear cockle, n. Obsolete.

Agriculture. In plural. A disease of wheat caused by the nematode Anguina tritici and characterized by small galls on the grains; ear-cockle. Also: a…

A disease of peach trees characterized by yellowing and distortion of foliage and other parts, and caused by a mycoplasma-like organism; = peach y…

A disease incident to oats, characterized by a thickening of the stem near the ground, said to be caused by a grub.

A disease in wheat, caused by the larva of the gout-fly (see quots. and gout-fly).

(a) the tuber of various kinds of sedge (Cyperus esculentus, C. bulbosus, etc.) used in some countries as an article of food; (b) = sedging, n.

a disease of trees and shrubs characterized by dark blisters on the foliage: (a) any of several conditions due to arthropod infestation, esp. one of…

(a) the ‘root’ or bulb of a tulip; (b) a disease of oats, characterized by a swelling at the base of the stem, caused by a minute nematoid worm.

a disease of many cultivated plants in which the roots are affected by characteristic galls, caused by infestation with nematodes of the genus Meloid…