chestnut blight


nounPlant Pathology.
  1. a disease of chestnuts, especially the American chestnut, characterized by bark lesions that girdle and eventually kill the tree, caused by a fungus, Endothia parasitica.

Origin of chestnut blight

1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

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