oak blight

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   a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods

   Broaderplant louse

Questions about oak blight

What does oak blight mean?

oak blight means "a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods".

Is oak blight a common word?

oak 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.