crown wart

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   a fungous disease of alfalfa which forms white excrescences at the base of the stem

   Broaderplant disease

Questions about crown wart

What does crown wart mean?

crown wart means "a fungous disease of alfalfa which forms white excrescences at the base of the stem".

Is crown wart a common word?

crown wart 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.