leaf blight

1. 1.

   any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant

   Broaderblight

   Narrowerfire blightneedle blight

Questions about leaf blight

What does leaf blight mean?

leaf blight means "any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant".

Is leaf blight a common word?

leaf 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.