dutch elm disease

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   disease of elms caused by a fungus

   Broaderplant disease

Questions about dutch elm disease

What does dutch elm disease mean?

dutch elm disease means "disease of elms caused by a fungus".

Is dutch elm disease a common word?

dutch elm disease 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.