| 单词 | common potato scab |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon potato scab potato scab n. any of various actinomycete bacteria which produce brown patches, pits, or swellings on the surface of potatoes; esp. (more fully common potato scab) Streptomyces scabies; (also) the disease caused by any of these fungi. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants > scab scab1742 potato scab1882 corky scab1911 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) at Potato Potato scab, a fungous plant, the Tuburcinia scabies, found beneath the skin of the tuber of the potato, producing superficial cavities and pits. 1905 E. M. Freeman Minnesota Plant Dis. 326 It is now generally accepted the common form of potato scab in America is due to a parasitic fungus, while the European scab has a very different cause. 1953 F. T. Brooks Plant Dis. (ed. 2) v. 73 In Britain it is customary to refer all types of Common Potato Scab to the single species A[ctinomyces] scabies. 2000 Independent on Sunday 30 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 39/1 The potato is vulnerable to a plague of diseases: eelworm, potato scab, blackleg, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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