head blight

1. 1.

   a blight of the heads of cereals

   Broaderblight

   Narrowerwheat scab

Questions about head blight

What does head blight mean?

head blight means "a blight of the heads of cereals".

Is head blight a common word?

head 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.