pink disease

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   serious bark disease of many tropical crop trees (coffee, citrus, rubber); branches have a covering of pink hyphae

   Broaderplant disease

Questions about pink disease

What does pink disease mean?

pink disease means "serious bark disease of many tropical crop trees (coffee, citrus, rubber); branches have a covering of pink hyphae".

Is pink disease a common word?

pink disease 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.