English Explanatory Dictionary

clubroot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A common disease of cabbages, radishes, turnips, and other plants of the Cruciferae, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which galls form on latent roots, rendering them clublike.
  2. A root thus affected.

Word forms

clubroot clubroots

Etymology

From club + root.

Synonyms

finger-and-toe
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