potato wart

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   fungous disease causing dark warty spongy excrescences in the eyes of potato tubers

   Broaderplant disease

Questions about potato wart

What does potato wart mean?

potato wart means "fungous disease causing dark warty spongy excrescences in the eyes of potato tubers".

Is potato wart a common word?

potato wart 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.