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clubroot

clubroot

English

Noun

clubroot (countable and uncountable, plural clubroots)

  1. (phytopathology) A common disease of cabbages, radishes, turnips, and other plants of the Cruciferae, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which galls form on latent roots, rendering them clublike.
  2. A root thus affected.