leaf scorch

1. 1.

   plant disease causing a burned or scorched appearance of the foliage

   Broaderscorch

Questions about leaf scorch

What does leaf scorch mean?

leaf scorch means "plant disease causing a burned or scorched appearance of the foliage".

Is leaf scorch a common word?

leaf scorch 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.