potato blight

noun

1. a devastating disease of potatoes produced by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans and the cause of the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century

Example Sentences

Out in the vegetable area there were first cutworms and then drought and potato blight to be contended with.

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This is what happened not long since to the potato crop and potato prices, when potatoes were affected by the potato blight.

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Her opinion was, that the potato blight was caused by the lightning, because the turf burnt so sulphurously.

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Botany and chemistry being powerless to stay the effects of the potato-blight, the appeal was next to economics.

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The forecast of Malthus was repeated in his own way by Cobbett, although neither of them foresaw the potato-blight as the means.

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