alder blight

1. 1.

   a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse)

   Broaderblight

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Questions about alder blight

What does alder blight mean?

alder blight means "a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse)".

Is alder blight a common word?

alder blight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.