early blight

noun

A disease of tomato and potato plants caused by the fungus Alternaria solani, producing distinctive bullseye-patterned leaf spots, stem lesions, fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato.

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Meanings

nounearly blight (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyA disease of tomato and potato plants caused by the fungus Alternaria solani, producing distinctive bullseye-patterned leaf spots, stem lesions, fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato.

Translations

Finnish lehtipolte
  • lehtipolteplant disease
Portuguese pinta preta
  • pinta pretaplant disease
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