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black arm
noun
- a type or phase of bacterial blight of cotton, characterized by black, elongated lesions on the stem and branches, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas malvacearum.
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Origin of black arm1
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Example Sentences
Down below, Nab runs out a bare black arm into the sea, which even in the calmest weather angrily foams along the windward side.
Look, there comes one of them in from the end of a long black arm that pushes out like a bowsprit over the gulf!
"You don't really mean that, Dik," Alec Diger clamped a heavy black arm across his shoulders.
She set her strong white teeth in his black arm; but with a brutal gesture he flung her light weight from him.
A black arm was suddenly silhouetted across the shoulders of a white blouse, whose wearer received a reassuring hug.
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