单词	potato blight
释义	potato blight noun : any of several destructive fungus diseases of the potato Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The Great Hunger began with potato blight, which destroyed Ireland’s dominant crop. Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2021 In the 1840s, Reverend Miles Berkeley, also a botanist, identified the fungus behind Ireland’s potato blight, despite the clergy’s notion that the devil was to blame. Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020 The potato blight affected all of Europe, but government mismanagement resulted in catastrophe for the then British colony of Ireland. Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019 Most potatoes grown in Ireland were of a single variety, the Irish Lumper, which had no inherent resistance to Phytophthora infestans, the microorganism that causes potato blight. Debal Deb, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019 Patrick Kennedy left Ireland in 1848 to escape starvation brought on by the potato blight. Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2019 But even he had been affected by the potato blight that had begun to devastate Ireland two years earlier. The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019 Because nothing says fun like a college freshman's fifth Irish Car Bomb, the pseudo Gaelic pub proliferates across the north side like potato blight. Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017 See More Word History First Known Use 1845, in the meaning defined above
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