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fire-blight

fire-blight is the alternative form of fire blight.

Meaning of fire blight

Noun

fire blight (countable and uncountable, plural fire blights)

  1. A bacterial plant disease, caused by Erwinia amylovora, that affects apples, pears and some other members of the Rosaceae family.
    • Pear growers also often reported scab and fire blights as the most damaging diseases.1949, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin, page xv

Forms of fire-blight

pluralfire-blights

Questions about fire-blight

What is fire-blight the alternative form of?
Fire-blight is the alternative form of fire blight.

Words near fire-blight in the dictionary

  1. fire-bellied
  2. fire-bellied newt
  3. fire-bellied newts
  4. fire-bellied toad
  5. fire-bellied toads
  6. fire-blight
  7. fire-board
  8. fire-boards
  9. fire-bote
  10. fire-botes
  11. fire-breather

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