leaf blight

/lif blaɪt/

Other forms: leaf blights

Definitions of leaf blight

1. noun

   any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant
   types:

   fire blight, pear blight

   a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees

   leaf cast, needle blight, needle cast

   a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall

   blight canker

   a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear

   type of:

   blight

   any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting