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apple blight

noun

  1. Also called: American blightan aphid, Eriosoma lanigera, that is covered with a powdery waxy secretion and infests apple trees

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The true apple blight is a malady of very serious character, that invades many orchards in the Western States.

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Blights are all over, the pear blight, the apple blight, the lettuce blight.

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