blister rust
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1. fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rust, rust fungus, |
| definition | : | any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | cronartium, genus cronartium, |
| definition | : | rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns (noun.plant) |
2. any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | rust, |
| definition | : | a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi (noun.state) |
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