plant disease vs sweet-potato ring rot

sweet-potato ring rot vs plant disease

plant disease and sweet-potato ring rot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plant disease	Yes	No	No	No
sweet-potato ring rot	Yes	No	No	No

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
sweet-potato ring rot: disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot

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, sclerotium disease, sclerotium rot, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	sweet-potato ring rot (noun)
a disease that affects plants	disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot

Difference between plant disease and sweet-potato ring rot

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