LEAF BLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leaf blight mean? 

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

1. any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAF BLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

blight (any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting)

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

fire blight; pear blight (a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees)

leaf cast; needle blight; needle cast (a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall)