Apple Blight (Noun)
Meaning
A disease of apple trees.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The farmer was devastated when he discovered his apple trees were suffering from apple blight, a costly disease that could ruin his entire crop.
- Researchers worked tirelessly to develop a solution to the widespread apple blight that was affecting orchards across the region.
- A combination of fungal infection and poor weather conditions led to the outbreak of apple blight in the local apple trees.
- The new strain of apple blight proved particularly virulent, spreading rapidly through the orchard and killing off many of the trees.
- To combat the apple blight, the farmer had to prune the infected branches and treat the remaining trees with a fungicide.