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spinach blight

 

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Noun spinach blight has 1 sense
  1. spinach blight - a disease of spinach plants
    --1 is a kind of
    blight

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Spinach Blight

Definition

Spinach blight refers to a plant disease that affects spinach crops, causing damage and often resulting in reduced yield or complete crop failure. It is characterized by the appearance of necrotic lesions on leaves, which can turn brown or black.

Sense 1: Noun

Spinach blight is a fungal disease that commonly affects mature spinach plants, causing significant damage to the foliage and reducing the overall quality and quantity of the harvest.

Sample Sentence: The spinach blight has spread throughout the entire crop, devastating our harvest this year.

Sense 2: Verb

In gardening, to spinach blight refers to the act of intentionally infecting spinach plants with a pathogen for the purpose of scientific research or to observe the effects of the disease on the crop.

Sample Sentence: The researchers decided to spinach blight a portion of the spinach patch to analyze its resistance to the disease.

Sense 3: Adjective (Popular)

Spinach blight is often used as an adjective to describe a condition where spinach leaves or plants are affected by blight, typically resulting in poor quality or inedible crops.

Sample Sentence: The farmer had to discard all the spinach from his garden due to the spinach blight leaves turning slimy and discolored.

Sense 4: Adjective (Local)

Spinach blight as a local adjective refers to a regional or specific type of blight that affects spinach crops grown in a particular area due to unique environmental conditions or specific pathogens prevalent in that locality.

Sample Sentence: The spinach blight identified in this region is caused by a strain of the fungus that is different from what is found in other parts of the country.

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