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black pit

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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Borbe sent videos of the black pit bull he was selling, a two-year-old named Ruby, to display what is known as its gameness - the determination of a dog to fight in the pit.

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

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

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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.”

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In Murton, about six miles from Sunderland, a big, black pit wheel stands as a memorial to the village's former colliery.

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