The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition.
A rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs.
Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.
To spoil, ruin, or destroy (something).
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
To suffer blight.
Something which contaminates.
A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
The act or process of contaminating
The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.