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finger-and-toe en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The plant disease clubroot.
Thirty years later I proved, by a series of experiments conducted at Kew, that the organism causing 'finger-and-toe' in turnips, cabbages, etc., and other plants belonging to the crucifer family, required an acid medium for its development, and that an alkaline medium arrested its growth.
1915, George Massee, Diseases of cultivated plants and trees, page 9:
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