Meanings
- uncountableA bacterial infection of citrus trees.
1 more example
Eventually Halbert got to the bottom of her list to the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world—huanglongbing, Chinese for “yellow dragon disease.” Huanglongbing, which is also called HLB or citrus greening, had been spreading slowly through India, China, Indonesia and South Africa.[...] Researchers began injecting antibiotics into tree trunks and looking for resistant genes to splice into orange trees. But huanglongbing continues to spread.
2013 March, Anna Kuchment, “The End of Orange Juice”, in Scientific American, volume 308, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, columns 1, 2Synonyms: citrus dieback, citrus vein phloem degeneration, citrus greening, citrus greening disease, HLB, leaf mottle yellows, likubin, yellow dragon disease
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA bacterial infection of citrus trees.
Origin
From Mandarin 黃龍病／黄龙病 (huánglóngbìng), literally "yellow dragon disease".
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 黃龍病 /黄龙病
- 黃龍病 /黄龙病 (huánglóngbìng)bacterial infection of citrus trees
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