plant disease vs heartrot

heartrot vs plant disease

plant disease and heartrot both are nouns.

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

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
heartrot: any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees)

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, 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)	heartrot (noun)
a disease that affects plants	any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees)

Difference between plant disease and heartrot

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