halo blight

noun

a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.

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Origin of halo blight

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby halo blight

halm, halma, halmahera, halmstad, halo, halo blight, halo effect, halo nevus, halo sign, halo-, halobacteria