collar blight

1. 1.

   a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees

   Broaderblight

Questions about collar blight

What does collar blight mean?

collar blight means "a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees".

Is collar blight a common word?

collar 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.