blister rust

Questions about blister rust

What does blister rust mean?

blister rust means "any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blister rust?

Close synonyms include white-pine rust, white pine blister rust, Cronartium ribicola. 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 blister rust a common word?

blister rust is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.