chestnut blight

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   a disease of American chestnut trees

   Synonymschestnut cankerchestnut-bark disease

   Broaderblight

Questions about chestnut blight

What does chestnut blight mean?

chestnut blight means "a disease of American chestnut trees".

What is another word for chestnut blight?

Close synonyms include chestnut canker, chestnut-bark disease. 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 chestnut blight a common word?

chestnut 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.