plant disease vs blight

blight vs plant disease

plant disease and blight both are nouns.

plant disease is not a verb while blight is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plant disease	Yes	No	No	No
blight	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
blight: any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

Other hyponyms of plant disease include 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, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	blight (noun)
a disease that affects plants	a state or condition being blighted
	any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

plant disease (verb)	blight (verb)
	cause to suffer a blight

Difference between plant disease and blight

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.