FIRE BLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fire blight mean? 

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

1. a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRE BLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fire blight; pear blight

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

leaf blight (any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant)

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

blight canker (a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear)