LATE BLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does late blight mean? 

• LATE BLIGHT (noun)
  The noun LATE BLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans

  Familiarity information: LATE BLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATE BLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("late blight" is a kind of...):

blight (any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "late blight"):

celery blight (a fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant)

 Context examples 

GM potatoes are also resistant to late blight disease which caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s and which continues to threaten potato crops worldwide.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Late blight can destroy entire fields and force some farmers to spray fungicides up to 15 times a year.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The GAANTRY gene stacking technology will be freely available to anyone interested, and a commercial firm is planning to use it to introduce multiple genes into potatoes to make them more resistant to late blight, which is caused by a fungus-like organism.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)