plant disease vs wilt disease

wilt disease vs plant disease

plant disease and wilt disease both are nouns.

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

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

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
wilt disease: any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots

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

plant disease (noun)	wilt disease (noun)
a disease that affects plants	any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots

Difference between plant disease and wilt disease

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