| 单词 | potato blight |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato blight potato blight n. a highly destructive disease of potatoes caused by a parasitic fungus, Phytophthora infestans, which first attacks the leaves, gradually spreading to all above-ground parts of the plant and finally the tubers, causing them to rot. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > potatoes potato blight1845 potato disease1845 potato murrain1845 potato rot1845 potato curl1887 late blight1893 black scab1908 wart disease1915 black wart1950 1845 Times 16 Sept. 6/5 The advices from Ireland are also, happily, silent on the subject of the potato blight. 1861 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 24 405 It must also be remembered that the effects of the disasterous period of famine and pestilence, which commenced with the potato blight of 1846–7, had extended over the first few years of the decade upon which it is now our province to report. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty (1881) ii. ii. 110 When the potato blight came, they died by thousands. 1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. xiv. 259 It would probably be worth while incorporating an aphicide such as nicotine or derris in the routine spraying for potato blight. 1988 Garden Answers Apr. 59/4 Spray with copper or other suitable fungicide to control potato blight. < as lemmas |
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