potato blight en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A devastating disease of potatoes caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans.
They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
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Translations (6)
gd gaiseadh a' bhuntàta (Phytophthora infestans, disease of potatoes) · ru фитофторо́з (Phytophthora infestans, disease of potatoes) · nb potetpest (Phytophthora infestans, disease of potatoes) · de Kartoffelmehltau (Phytophthora infestans, disease of potatoes) · ru фитофто́ра (Phytophthora infestans, disease of potatoes) · fi perunarutto (Phytophthora infestans, disease of potatoes)