Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sterility in plants, or failure to produce fruit after blossoming, owing to the washing away of the pollen by excessive rains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hort.) A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
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Examples
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Sensitivity to frost and proclivity to shatter or coulure (a disease that results in premature fruit drop) is the primary reason that Malbec has become a decreasing factor in most of France.
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Sensitivity to frost and proclivity to shatter or coulure (a disease that results in premature fruit drop) is the primary reason that Malbec has become a decreasing factor in most of France.
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Sensitivity to frost and proclivity to shatter or coulure (a disease that results in premature fruit drop) is the primary reason that Malbec has become a decreasing factor in most of France.
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However, the Bordelais did not replant carmenere because it is susceptible to coulure, also known as "shatter," a metabolic condition triggered by wet, rainy conditions that cause grapes to fail to develop after flowering.
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Sensitivity to frost and proclivity to shatter or coulure (a disease that results in premature fruit drop) is the primary reason that Malbec has become a decreasing factor in most of France.
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Sensitivity to frost and proclivity to shatter or coulure (a disease that results in premature fruit drop) is the primary reason that Malbec has become a decreasing factor in most of France.
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Sensitivity to frost and proclivity to shatter or coulure (a disease that results in premature fruit drop) is the primary reason that Malbec has become a decreasing factor in most of France.
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Dourthe reported that the weather settled down during May, encouraging good growth, but rain and cold at flowering caused widespread coulure (failure to produce fruit) and millerandage
Decanter News 2009
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Cool and damp conditions caused widespread coulure (failure to produce fruit) in Muscat Ottonel in particular, dramatically lowering yields.
Decanter News 2009
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Cool and damp conditions caused widespread coulure (failure to produce fruit) in Muscat Ottonel in particular, dramatically lowering yields.
Decanter News 2009
hernesheir commented on the word coulure
A (French) term for viticulture aficionados, synonymous with the less-than-euphonious English term grape shatter. Shatter happens.
November 1, 2011