单词 | red rot |
释义 | red rotn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1597 |
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