wilt disease

1. 1.

   any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots

   Synonymswilt

   Broaderplant disease

   Narrowergranville wiltfusarium wiltverticilliosis

Questions about wilt disease

What does wilt disease mean?

wilt disease means "any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots".

What is another word for wilt disease?

Close synonyms include wilt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wilt disease a common word?

wilt 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.