wheat scab

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   a disease of the heads of wheat plants

   Broaderhead blight

Questions about wheat scab

What does wheat scab mean?

wheat scab means "a disease of the heads of wheat plants".

Is wheat scab a common word?

wheat scab 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.