late blight

1. 1.

   blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans

   Broaderblight

   Narrowercelery blight

Questions about late blight

What does late blight mean?

late blight means "blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans".

Is late blight a common word?

late 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.