Mun\\dulla yellows
/mʌnˌdʌlə ˈjɛləʊz
/plural noun [treated as singular]
A disease of eucalyptus and other native Australian plants, causing a progressive and destructive yellowing of leaves: Mundulla yellows poses the biggest threat to woodland birds this country has ever seen...
- There are claims today of a breakthrough in diagnosing the tree disease, Mundulla Yellows.
- A contractor mistakenly felled 141 experimental trees, destroying years of research into a cure for the troublesome Mundulla Yellows disease.
- The university has begun a Supreme Court action against them for ruining a research plot established to find a cure for the fatal Mundulla Yellows disease.
Origin
1990s: from Mundulla, the South Australian district where it was first noticed.