Word.ws English Dictionary

tar spot

tar spot noun: a fungal disease affecting various plants and causing dark spots on leaves.

Noun

tar spot (uncountable)

  1. A fungal disease affecting various plants and causing dark spots on leaves.
    • Species of Phyllachora cause diseases in plants known as leaf tar spots. P. maydis, responsible tor the maize tar spot, is one of the few species that can cause severe leaf damage.1990, R. S. Mehrotra, An Introduction to Mycology, page 335
    • Large and small tar spot are apparently more abundant in the eastem and westem United States, respectively. […] Premature defoliation can occur if tar spot is severe.1996, F. H. Tainter, Principles of Forest Pathology, page 459

tar spot meaning in Tamil

tar spot in Tamil

கரும்புள்ளி, தார்புள்ளி

Questions about tar spot

What does tar spot mean?
Tar spot means a fungal disease affecting various plants and causing dark spots on leaves.
What is tar spot in Tamil?
Tar spot in Tamil is கரும்புள்ளி, தார்புள்ளி. See Tar spot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tar spot?
Tar spot is a noun.

Words near tar spot in the dictionary

  1. tar papers
  2. tar pit
  3. tar pits
  4. tar sand
  5. tar sands
  6. tar spot
  7. TAR syndrome
  8. tar water
  9. tar waters
  10. tar with the same brush
  11. tar with the same stick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tar spot (page history and authors); tar spot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tar spot.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tar_spot. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.