Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The pathological exudation of gum by a plant, such as a fruit tree, resulting from bacterial or fungal infection, insect infestation, or mechanical injury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the formation of gum in the older organs of plants by the transformation of large groups of tissue, as in the production of cherry-gum and gum tragacanth.
- noun An abnormal production and flow of gum from cracks or wounds of trees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The formation of
patches of agummy substance on the surface of certain plants, particularlyfruit trees , caused bysap oozing from wounds orcankers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees
- noun disease of citrus trees caused by the fungus Phytophthora citrophthora
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin gummi, gum; see gum + –osis.]
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gum + -osis
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Examples
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Symptoms of sunscald closely mimic the gummosis disease, but are restricted to the side of the trunk facing the sun.
Chapter 8 1985
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Reported diseases include a bark gummosis, one defoliation leafspot, and some fungal diseases of seedlings in nurseries.
Chapter 8 1985
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The gum disease (_gummosis, gum-flux) _ is only too well known to all who grow peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, or other stone fruits.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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A. Sounds like gummosis caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas.
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