plant disease vs dry rot

dry rot vs plant disease

plant disease and dry rot both are nouns.

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

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
dry rot: a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit 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, 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)	dry rot (noun)
a disease that affects plants	a fungus causing dry rot
	a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus

Difference between plant disease and dry rot

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