blue stain


nounPlant Pathology.
  1. a serious fungal disease of certain trees that reduces the economic value of the timber, caused by various species of the genus Ceratocystis.

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How to use blue stain in a sentence

  • The face and body were painted with red and white ochre and a blue stain.

    Dress design | Talbot Hughes
  • The young trapper had, in effect, hit the mark in the very centre, as the blue stain of the bullet testified.

    The Scalp Hunters | Mayne Reid
  • He looked out to where a channel made a deep blue stain through the paler cerulean of the sea.

    Wild Oranges | Joseph Hergesheimer
  • They opened the shirt tenderly, and there, on the right breast, saw a dull blue stain with a crimson thread in the middle of it.

    An Old Meerschaum | David Christie Murray
  • They may be counted in leukæmic blood with the aid of the triacid or eosine-methylene blue stain.

    Histology of the Blood | Paul Ehrlich

British Dictionary definitions for blue stain

blue stain

noun
  1. forestry a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi

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