plant disease vs black rot

black rot vs plant disease

plant disease and black rot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plant disease	Yes	No	No	No
black rot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, black rot is a hyponym of plant disease; that is, black rot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant disease:

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
black rot: a fungous disease causing darkening and decay of the leaves of fruits and vegetables

Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, leaf disease, rust, blackheart, black knot, 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, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	black rot (noun)
a disease that affects plants	a fungous disease causing darkening and decay of the leaves of fruits and vegetables

Difference between plant disease and black rot

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