plant disease vs rhizoctinia disease

rhizoctinia disease vs plant disease

plant disease and rhizoctinia disease both are nouns.

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

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
rhizoctinia disease: disease caused by rhizoctinia or fungi of Pellicularia and Corticium

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, heartrot, mosaic, 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)	rhizoctinia disease (noun)
a disease that affects plants	disease caused by rhizoctinia or fungi of Pellicularia and Corticium

Difference between plant disease and rhizoctinia disease

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