damping-off

[ dam-ping-awf, -of ]

/ ˈdæm pɪŋˈɔf, -ˈɒf /

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noun Plant Pathology.

a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.

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Origin of damping-off

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby damping-off

dampen, damper, damper pedal, Dampier, damping, damping-off, damp-mop, damp off, dampproof, damp squib, Damrosch

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How to use damping-off in a sentence

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
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In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
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There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.
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She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.
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British Dictionary definitions for damping-off

damping off

noun

any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture

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Scientific definitions for damping-off

damping off

Any of various diseases of seedlings that are caused by oomycetes, especially of the genus Pythium, or by fungi, and result in wilting and death.