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fire blights

fire blights is the plural 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

Questions about fire blights

What is fire blights the plural of?
Fire blights is the plural of fire blight.

Words near fire blights in the dictionary

  1. fire blanket
  2. fire blankets
  3. fire blanks
  4. fire blast
  5. fire blight
  6. fire blights
  7. fire blindness
  8. fire block
  9. fire blocks
  10. fire board
  11. fire boards

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