apple blight

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   a disease of apple trees

   Synonymsapple canker

   Broaderblight

Questions about apple blight

What does apple blight mean?

apple blight means "a disease of apple trees".

What is another word for apple blight?

Close synonyms include apple canker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apple blight a common word?

apple 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.