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stem rust

noun

, Plant Pathology.
  1. any of several fungal diseases of plants affecting the stems, especially a disease of wheat and other grasses characterized by pustules of red and then black spores.
  2. any of the fungi causing such a disease.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stem rust1

First recorded in 1915–20

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