chestnut blight

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chestnut blight

A disease of chestnut trees caused by a fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) that is especially destructive to the American chestnut, characterized by cankers that kill the branches and trunk.

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chest′nut blight`

a disease of chestnut trees caused by a fungus, Endothia parasitica, characterized by bark lesions that eventually girdle the trunk and kill the tree.

[1905–10, Amer.]

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chestnut blight - a disease of American chestnut trees

chestnut canker, chestnut-bark disease

blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

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