plant disease vs sclerotium disease

sclerotium disease vs plant disease

plant disease and sclerotium disease both are nouns.

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

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
sclerotium disease: plant disease cause by fungi of the genus Sclerotium; also one in which sclerotia are formed

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, rhizoctinia disease, pink disease, potato wart, root rot, scorch, sweet-potato ring rot, sclerotium rot, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	sclerotium disease (noun)
a disease that affects plants	plant disease cause by fungi of the genus Sclerotium; also one in which sclerotia are formed

Difference between plant disease and sclerotium disease

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