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plant disease vs Dutch elm disease

Dutch elm disease vs plant disease

plant disease and Dutch elm disease both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
plant disease Yes No No No
Dutch elm disease Yes No No No
As nouns, Dutch elm disease is a hyponym of plant disease; that is, Dutch elm disease is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant disease:
  • plant disease: a disease that affects plants
  • Dutch elm disease: disease of elms caused by a fungus
Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, leaf disease, rust, blackheart, black knot, black rot, black spot, bottom rot, brown rot, gummosis, canker, cotton ball, crown gall, crown wart, damping off, dieback, dry rot, heartrot, mosaic, rhizoctinia disease, pink disease, potato wart, root rot, scorch, sweet-potato ring rot, sclerotium disease, sclerotium rot, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.
plant disease (noun) Dutch elm disease (noun)
a disease that affects plants disease of elms caused by a fungus
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