Noun: wilt disease
Pronunciation:(wilt di’zeez)
Wilt disease meaning:
- Any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots
Synonyms: wilt
Derived forms: wilt diseases
Quotations:
- Northern Nut Growers Association – Future Outlook Among the many things that we need to know yet about the oak wilt disease and its causal fungus one is outstanding.
Sample sentences:
- Redbay ambrosia beetles can bring the laurel wilt disease to avocado trees, ravaging the trees and crop.
- In Georgia, for example, laurel wilt disease is wiping out redbay trees, which are important to wildlife, especially certain butterflies that need them to survive.
- I don’t know, because just as the buds were about to deliver, the stems melted in the classic expression of the clematis wilt disease.
- The sudden collapse of clematis stems is caused by a wilt disease that affects susceptible large-flowering varieties.