needle blight

1. 1.

   a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall

   Synonymsneedle castleaf cast

   Broaderleaf blight

Questions about needle blight

What does needle blight mean?

needle blight means "a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall".

What is another word for needle blight?

Close synonyms include needle cast, leaf cast. 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 needle blight a common word?

needle 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.