sweet-potato ring rot

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   disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot

   Broaderplant disease

Questions about sweet-potato ring rot

What does sweet-potato ring rot mean?

sweet-potato ring rot means "disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot".

Is sweet-potato ring rot a common word?

sweet-potato ring rot 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.