plant disease vs leaf disease

leaf disease vs plant disease

plant disease and leaf disease both are nouns.

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

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
leaf disease: any plant disease localized in the foliage

Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, 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)	leaf disease (noun)
a disease that affects plants	any plant disease localized in the foliage

Difference between plant disease and leaf disease

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