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finger-and-toe

finger-and-toe noun: the plant disease clubroot.

Noun

finger-and-toe (uncountable)

  1. The plant disease clubroot.
    • Thirty years later I proved, by a series of experiments conducted at Kew, that the organism causing 'finger-and-toe' in turnips, cabbages, etc., and other plants belonging to the crucifer family, required an acid medium for its development, and that an alkaline medium arrested its growth.1915, George Massee, Diseases of cultivated plants and trees, page 9

Forms of finger-and-toe

alternative formfingers and toes
alternative formfinger and toe

Questions about finger-and-toe

What does finger-and-toe mean?
Finger-and-toe means the plant disease clubroot.
What part of speech is finger-and-toe?
Finger-and-toe is a noun.

Words near finger-and-toe in the dictionary

  1. finger work
  2. finger wrestling
  3. finger's breadth
  4. finger's-breadth
  5. finger's-breadths
  6. finger-and-toe
  7. finger-bang
  8. finger-bar
  9. finger-bars
  10. finger-beam
  11. finger-beams

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