ear cocklen.
/ˈɪə kɒkl/, U.S. /ˈɪ(ə)r ˌkɑk(ə)l/ A disease of wheat and other cereal plants caused by the parasitic nematode Anguina tritici, in which the grains are replaced by small, dark galls. Also (in plural): the galls themselves.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants
oak-apple1440
bedeguar1578
sponge1608
oak-berry1626
oak nut1626
Aleppo gall1698
grape-gall1753
rose gall1753
oak galla1774
ear cockle1777
honeysuckle apple1818
sage-apple1832
robin's pincushion1835
oak spangle1836
robin's cushion1837
oak-wart1840
spangle1842
shick-shack1847
spangle-gall1864
tomato gall1869
Robin redbreast's cushion1878
knopper1879
trumpet-gall1879
spongiole1884
knot-gall1894
the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants
cockle1777
ear cockle1777
raddleman1798
purple1807
yellows1808
sedging1820
gout1828
sedge-root1837
leaf blister1858
tulip-root1875
root-knot1888
1777 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 570/1 This weed..has obtained among the husbandmen the significant appellation of Ear-Cockle.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 113/2. The destructive disease called Ear-cockle or Purples.
1860 J. Curtis Farm Insects 299 The minute worm which causes the disease called ear-cockle, or purples..belongs to the class Infusoria.
1904 A. E. Shipley & E. W. MacBride Zoology (ed. 2) xxiii. 643 Tylenchus tritici forms the so-called Ear-cockles in wheat.
2007 J. Bridge & J. L. Starr Plant Nematodes v. 66/2 The ear cockle or seed gall nematode..is distributed in many parts of the world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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