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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease caused by the oomycete Phytophthora ramorum that affects oak trees and certain other woody plants and is characterized by oozing cankers on the trunk, browning of foliage, shoot dieback, and often death of the plant.
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