black pit

American  

noun

Plant Pathology.

1. a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.

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Example Sentences

Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He has approvingly quoted Gustave Flaubert’s line that by “gazing down into the black pit at one’s feet, one remains calm.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Another message included a photo of a 1½-year-old black pit bull, but described a 7-year-old Siberian husky.

From Los Angeles Times

Shadow, a black pit bull mix, sat in the Los Angeles city shelter of L.A.

From New York Times

Lien, whose scenic designs for shows like “Great Comet” and “An Octoroon” are typically characterized by surprising use of three-dimensional space, was struck by the show’s references to “the great black pit, the hole in the ground, the vermin — this kind of characterization of that underclass population of Victorian London as being like sewer rats, living underground.”

From New York Times