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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal brushlike growth of closely clustered shoots or twigs on a plant, often caused by a fungus or virus.
- noun Any of various plant diseases characterized by such growths, especially a destructive fungal disease of cacao caused by the basidiomycetous fungus Crinipellis perniciosa.
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- noun an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
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ry commented on the word witches' broom
erinmckean / wordnik staff: can something be done about the glitchiness in lookups where an apostrophe is present in the word? Replace ' with ’ in all definitions and then also replace ' with ’ when search or word page urls are generated, similar to how the browser replaces space with %20? but actually no that's not server-side... hm (I hope it doesn't sound like i know what i'm talking about, b/c i don't). Anyway. It would be awesome if it were fixed.
April 15, 2014
erinmckean commented on the word witches' broom
thanks ry! Can you give me a bit more info on the glitchiness? An email would be awesome if you have time!
I'm looking into a bunch of related encoding issues right now ...
April 15, 2014