club root

British  

noun

1. a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted

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Example Sentences

Inside, herbal remedies perfume the air and counters boast all manner of ingredients — Chinese “business powder,” devil's club root, coffin nails, African mojo wishing beans, and coyote skin, teeth and penises.

From Los Angeles Times

Diseases and Insects Enemies.—Club root has been mentioned.

From Project Gutenberg

FINGER-AND-TOE, Club Root or Anbury, a destructive plant-disease known botanically as Plasmodiophora Brassicae, which attacks cabbages, turnips, radishes and other cultivated and wild members of the order Cruciferae.

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The ravages of the root maggot have made the growing of early cauliflower, and even early cabbages in many sections, almost an impossibility, but there is a remedy, when the maggot has attacked the roots of the plants, which may be known by a tendency of the leaves to wilt and droop in the heat of the day, very much the same as when affected by club root.

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Cabbages cannot be grown again on this particular piece of land for from four to six years on account of club root.

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