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noun Plant Pathology.
a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by decay of the stem tissues.
any disease so characterized.
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How to use stem rot in a sentence
Growers have occasionally observed this "stem rot" but have never connected it with the disease on the leaves later in the season.
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants|A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding