BLISTER RUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blister rust mean? 

• BLISTER RUST (noun)
  The noun BLISTER RUST has 2 senses:

1. any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally

2. fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host

  Familiarity information: BLISTER RUST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLISTER RUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

blister rust; white-pine rust; white pine blister rust

Hypernyms ("blister rust" is a kind of...):

rust (a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blister rust; Cronartium ribicola

Hypernyms ("blister rust" is a kind of...):

rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)

Holonyms ("blister rust" is a member of...):

Cronartium; genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)