thread blight

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   a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus)

   Broaderblight

Questions about thread blight

What does thread blight mean?

thread blight means "a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus)".

Is thread blight a common word?

thread 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.