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CEDAR-APPLE RUST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cedar-apple rust mean?
• CEDAR-APPLE RUST (noun)
The noun CEDAR-APPLE RUST has 1 sense:
1. rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc
Familiarity information: CEDAR-APPLE RUST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
apple rust; cedar-apple rust; Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae
Hypernyms ("cedar-apple rust" is a kind of...):
rust; rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)
Holonyms ("cedar-apple rust" is a member of...):
genus Gymnosporangium; Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)
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