gummosis

1. 1.

   pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees

   Broaderplant disease
2. 2.

   disease of citrus trees caused by the fungus Phytophthora citrophthora

   Synonymsbrown rot gummosis

   Broaderbrown rot

Other forms of gummosis

plural

gummosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gummosis

What does gummosis mean?

gummosis means "pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gummosis?

gummosis has 3 syllables: gum-mo-sis. The stress falls on "gum".

What is another word for gummosis?

Close synonyms include brown rot gummosis. 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 gummosis a common word?

gummosis 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.