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单词 red rot
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red rotn.

Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈrɒt/, U.S. /ˈˌrɛd ˈrɑt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., rot n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + rot n.1 With sense 3 compare German Rotfäule (1847 or earlier).
1. English regional (originally northern). The plant sundew, Drosera rotundifolia (formerly believed to cause liver rot in sheep). Cf. rot-grass n. at rot n.1 Compounds 2. Now historical.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Droseraceae (sundew and allies) > [noun]
rosa solis1568
ros solis1578
sundew1578
youthgrass1584
lust-wort1597
moor grass1597
red rot1597
youthwort1597
rose of the sun1631
drosera1801
dew-plant1869
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. clv. 1366 It is called in English Sunne deaw..: in the North parts Red rot, bicause it rotteth sheepe.
1664 R. Turner Βοτανολογία 274 It is called..Sundew, Lustwort, Moor-grass, and of some Red-rot.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 397 Red-rot (or flower-sun-dew) is said to take the name of red-rot from it's being so pernicious to sheep.
1793 C. Milne Indigenous Bot. I. 377 The name White Rot is employed to distinguish the plant in question from another of the same imagined destructive tendency, termed Red Rot.
1858 C. C. Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Flowers 33 Not so poetical is the name of ‘red-rot’, by which it is distinguished in some of our rural districts, on account of its supposed share in the injurious effects experienced by sheep which feed on pastures such as it loves.
1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 193 The pale Hydrocotyle vulgaris was White Rot, the rosy-leaved Sundew, as a comrade of damp places, became the Red Rot.
2. Any of various plant diseases characterized by reddish discoloration of the tissues, esp. of the stem; (in later use) esp. a disease of sugar cane caused by the fungus Glomerella tucumanensis.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > various diseases
red rot1798
bunt1800
heart rot1808
yellow rust1808
pepperbrand1842
black spot1847
take-all1865
anthracnose1877
coffee-leaf disease1877
white rot1879
bladder-brand1883
basal rot1896
whitehead1898
black root rot1901
chancre1903
black pod1904
bud-rot1906
frog-eye1906
wildfire1918
pasmo1926
blind-seed disease1939
sharp eyespot1943
1798 Sporting Mag. 11 16/1 Hops turn out more than half a crop; but the severe winds and red rot, have prevailed too violently to allow of many fine samples.
1859 13th Ann. Rep. Ohio State Board Agric. 1858 699 The lot of cane I succeeded in securing had been badly frosted, and had suffered very much from the red rot.
1893 N. A. Cobb Plant Dis. & their Remedies (N.S.W. Dept. Agric.) 29 The disease which I term red rot is of fungus origin, and is one which occurs more particularly in the stalk of ripe cane.
1928 F. S. Earle Sugar Cane v. 154 The red rot fungus gains entrance to the stalks through borer holes and other injuries.
2002 K. Mathur et al. in J. F. Leslie Sorghum & Millets Dis. v. 212/1 Stalk infection (stalk rot or red rot) also results in lodging and considerable reduction in grain and fodder yield.
3. Fungal decay of trees or timber, esp. softwoods, in which there is reddish discoloration of the wood, particularly in the early stages; an instance of this. Cf. red-heart n. 2.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees
heart rot1808
white rot1828
sap-rot1838
red rot1847
conk1851
soft rot1886
pine blister1889
silver-leaf1890
leaf shedding1891
pine rust1893
leaf cast1894
partridge-wood1894
larch blister1895
needle-cast1895
sooty mould1901
white pine blister rust1909
larch needle cast1921
coral-spot1923
ink disease1923
pocket rot1926
wood rot1926
Dutch elm disease1927
oak wilt1942
ash dieback1957
1847 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. & Sci. Apr. 215 Timber felled in September will not suffer from red rot or from powder-post.
1875 Pop. Sci. Rev. 14 201 The ‘red-rot’ (Rothfäule) of pines is caused by the penetration and diffusion of the mycelium of a fungus Trametes Pini, Fr., in the heart-wood.
1925 R. C. Hawley & A. F. Hawes Man. Forestry Northeast. U.S. (ed. 2) vii. 127 The practice..of leaving for seed purposes trees diseased with red rot is unsafe because it tends to perpetuate the disease.
1950 R. Moore Candlemas Bay 119 The house was starting in to go right now, the way all the fine old houses went, as surely as if red rot had got into its solid beams and were eating it hourly down.
2002 D. K. Young in R. H. Arnett et al. Amer. Beetles II. 520/2 Some, such as Nematoplus, are suggested to be associated with logs infested with brown rot fungi (wood in the red rot stage of decay).
4. A form of deterioration of leather, esp. leather bookbindings, in which the surface disintegrates into a reddish powder.Red rot is associated with the presence of sulphuric acid in the leather, often from sulphur dioxide in polluted air.
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1905 E. W. Hulme Leather for Libraries i. 14 Red rot in morocco. On friction the leather turns to a red powder.
1958 L. Seligsberger & C. W. Mann in F. O'Flaherty et al. Chem. & Technol. Leather II. xxx. 490 This deterioration consists in a reddening of the fibers and a tendency to rub off in a powdery form, a condition known as ‘red rot’.
2005 Govt. Information Q. 22 741 In recent years, there has been a project to rebind much of the bound volumes that were originally encased in sheep skin prone to ‘red rot’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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