crown gall

1. 1.

   a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground

   Broaderplant disease

   Narrowerhairy root

Questions about crown gall

What does crown gall mean?

crown gall means "a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground".

Is crown gall a common word?

crown gall 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.