单词 | footrot |
释义 | footrotn. 1. Infection or inflammation of the foot in livestock (or, rarely, other animals), typically resulting in lameness; spec. (a) a contagious disease caused by the Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus, mainly affecting sheep; (b) (more fully bovine footrot) a disease of cattle caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum and other anaerobic bacteria. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > various diseases footrot1706 botrytis1751 leaf spot1846 winter rot1857 leaf blotch1860 downy mildew1886 sun scald1896 Septoria1897 spike-disease1906 fusarium rot1907 hadromycosis1916 verticillium wilt1916 wilt1916 die-off1918 rhynchosporium1918 shoestring rot1931 vascular wilt (disease)1946 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > foot-rot clausick1277 foot evil1562 loor1587 footrot1706 halt1742 foot-halt1788 hoof-rot1863 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Clausick or Clausike, (old Word) the Claw-sickness, or Foot-rot in Sheep. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June iii. 95 They were directly put into a Meadow, among thirty sound Weathers, who took the Foot-rot from these Ewes. 1807 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 430 Foot-rot—is frequently occasioned in the milking season. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xxii. 193 A sure preventative against footrot, that plague of the ferret-keeper. 1922 M. H. Reynolds Vet. Stud. for Agric. Students (ed. 8) 172 It is necessary to distinguish between foot-rot and a very different disease which we know as ‘foot-and-mouth disease’. 1962 Econ. Bot. 16 295/2 Fescue foot, sometimes referred to as fescue foot rot or fescue lameness, is a non-infectious disease sometimes found in cattle grazing on tall fescue. 1992 C. Gidley Crying of Wind xxi. 212 There was some agricultural news—bovine footrot had struck again. 2007 Irish Farmers Jrnl. 29 Sept. (J3 section) 5/1 Autumn is the ideal time to vaccinate against footrot. 2. Disease affecting the base of the stem or roots in plants, usually resulting from fungal infection; an instance or type of this.Disease of this kind is often caused by oomycetes of the genus Phytophthora. 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 1883 A. H. Manville Pract. Orange Culture xiv. 84 Another disease called foot-rot is enumerated by some authorities. 1899 G. Massee Text-bk. Plant Dis. 333 This disease is known as ‘mal-di-gomma’ in Italy, and ‘foot-rot’ in Florida. 1941 Bot. Rev. 7 308 Various terms have been used in designating the troubles that afflict the root system [in cereals], such as foot-rot, take-all, blight, and so forth. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) iii. 38 Grafting is especially useful when the rootstock is immune to a disease that attacks the clone on its own roots, e.g. footrot in citrus. 2010 New Phytologist 185 54/1 These ascomyceteous fungi [of the genus Fusarium] are also common causal agents of root rot, seedling blight, and foot rot. Derivatives ˈfootrotting n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand treatment of sheep or other livestock for footrot (typically with medicated foot baths, antibiotics, and various other measures). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary procedures > treatments of sheep sheep-smearing1824 footrotting1851 Mules1932 mulesing1946 1851 Brit. Banner 4 June 373/1 During the other half of the year the bushman can generally obtain lucrative employment in post-and-rail fencing, thatching, digging water-holes, sheep-dressing, foot-rotting, bullock-driving, or other work. 1891 Wagga Wagga Advertiser 30 July 4/1 A stout party who was..engaged in foot-rotting. 1986 K. Ovenden O.E. 22 ‘What do you do?..You know the range of things: footrotting to ocean racer crewing.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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