needle cast

1. 1.

   a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall

   Synonymsneedle blightleaf cast

   Broaderleaf blight

Questions about needle cast

What does needle cast mean?

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

What is another word for needle cast?

Close synonyms include needle blight, 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 cast a common word?

needle cast 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.