Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fungus belonging to the genus Gymnosporangium.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately, crabapples are host to a multitude of pathogens, such as canker, blackspot, cedar-apple rust, and dreaded fireblight.

    SNIP & SAVE: PLANTS TO AVOID Pooky 2008

  • These enervated old standbys are hellish to dig up, are actually TREES not shrubs, and are culprits in the egregious cedar-apple rust cycle.

    SNIP & SAVE: PLANTS TO AVOID Pooky 2008

  • These enervated old standbys are hellish to dig up, are actually TREES not shrubs, and are culprits in the egregious cedar-apple rust cycle.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Pooky 2008

  • Unfortunately, crabapples are host to a multitude of pathogens, such as canker, blackspot, cedar-apple rust, and dreaded fireblight.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Pooky 2008

  • Godfrey ate only one cedar-apple, but was at once taken very sick, and his friends believed that he had been poisoned by the emir.

    With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds Frances Nimmo Greene 1885

  • G. juniperi-virginianae is a pathogenic fungus that causes cedar-apple rust; its ballistospores are discharged from the surface of orange gelatinous horns that emerge from galls that develop on various juniper species.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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