chestnut-bark disease
- noun
- /ˈʧɛstnʌt bɑrk dɪˈziz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad de la corteza del castaño
- The spread of chestnut-bark disease devastated forests in the eastern United States in the early 20th century.
Examples
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Scientists are working on ways to breed resistance to chestnut-bark disease in American chestnuts.
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Many old trees succumbed to chestnut-bark disease before preventive treatments were developed.
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The chestnut-bark disease has devastated many forests in the eastern United States.
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Have you heard about chestnut-bark disease affecting our local trees?
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Many old trees succumbed to chestnut-bark disease before preventive treatments were developed.
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The spread of chestnut-bark disease devastated forests in the eastern United States in the early 20th century.
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Scientists are working on ways to breed resistance to chestnut-bark disease in American chestnuts.
Synonyms
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A fungus that makes open sores on American chestnut trees and often kills them
A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
chestnut-bark + disease
The phrase is compositionally transparent: it names a disease (disease) that affects the bark of chestnut trees (chestnut + bark), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from its parts. This modifier + noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Chestnut-bark disease comes from a simple, visible image: a fungus made deep sores on the bark of chestnut trees, and those wounds often killed the trees. So, the name describes 'a disease' that attacks the chestnut's outer layer.