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HEAD BLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head blight mean? 

HEAD BLIGHT (noun)
  The noun HEAD BLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a blight of the heads of cerealsplay

  Familiarity information: HEAD BLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEAD BLIGHT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A blight of the heads of cereals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("head blight" is a kind of...):

blight (any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head blight"):

wheat scab (a disease of the heads of wheat plants)


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