单词 | albication |
释义 | albicationn. Chiefly Botany. Now rare. The process of growing white; esp. the development of white or light patches, spots, streaks, bands, etc., in the foliage of plants, either as a natural process of variegation, or as a symptom of disease or disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > characterized by part affected or appearance produced jaundice1600 black rot1769 root rot1831 leaf blight1849 leaf curl1850 black heart1862 icterus1866 albication1877 footrot1883 curl-leaf1886 silver top1890 stem-sickness1890 sleeping disease1899 mosaic1900 leaf mosaic1902 scorch1906 blotch1909 little leaf1911 ringspot1913 crinkle1920 vein banding1928 1877 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 15 366 It will be interesting to compare the chemistry of albication with that of icterus and chlorosis. 1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) It is not yet certainly known whether albication [in Phalaris arundinacea] is a pathological change or not. 1922 Sugar Mar. 158/3 The whitening of the leaves (albication) is described. 1945 Internat. Rev. Agric. 36 176 The variations or viable mutations which are obtained so rarely, and of which the most frequent is albication of the cotyledons or the leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1877 |
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