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Main Entry:	blight [blahyt] Show IPA/blaɪt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	disease; plague
Synonyms:	affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe
Antonyms:	blessing, boon, health, prosperity

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Main Entry:	slime
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	muck, gelled waste
Synonyms:	fungus, glop, goo, gunk, mire, mucus, mud, ooze, scum, sludge

Main Entry:	yeast
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	leaven
Synonyms:	ferment, fungus, leavening

Example Sentences

Athlete's foot is an infection of the feet caused by fungus.

Both early blight and late blight on potato are caused by fungus spores and are not transmitted by aphids.

The mysterious ailment gets its name from the white fungus that grows on bats' noses and often on other body parts.

Athlete's foot is an infection of the feet caused by fungus.

Both early blight and late blight on potato are caused by fungus spores and are not transmitted by aphids.

The mysterious ailment gets its name from the white fungus that grows on bats' noses and often on other body parts.

The seed may get colonized successfully by the appropriate fungus and grow up to be an orchid.

Once the fungus invades its victim's body, it's already too late.

To prevent powdery mildew, plant resistant varieties and routinely spray plants with jets of water to wash off fungus spores.

Fungus spores explode in sync to attain higher heights.

Prescription antifungal medicines taken by mouth may help clear the fungus.

Slime moulds are unusual critters-neither animal, nor plant nor fungus.

The fungus eventually invades the tree with tubelike threads that spread into the inner layers of bark.

Some ant species are colonized by a parasitic fungus that turns them into zombie vehicles for spore dispersal.

Fungus gnats were placed in the center container and then the scientists checked where they were two days later.

Rake up and dispose of dead leaves, since fungus spores can overwinter on them.

Animals such as ants, snails and beetles are known to farm fungus.

Sands holds out a clear plastic petri dish filled with a white fuzzy fungus growing across the bottom.

Whether you are a fungus or a homo sapien the answer is the same: furtherance of one's genes.

The white fungus ring around bats' noses is a symptom of the disease, but not necessarily the cause.

Then when rain falls, the fungus grows freely without competing organisms.

There are beetle species that farm fungus in my backyard.

It's chock-full of everything from fungus to seaweed.

The disease is so new that scientists are only now agreeing that the fungus is likely a cause, rather than a symptom.

The coccidiodin skin test checks to see if you are infected with the fungus that causes coccidioidomycosis.

To find out why, scientists infected rotifers with a deadly fungus.

It is a delicate process since the needs of the fungus and the needs of the trees are not entirely the same.

Resistant to oak root fungus more add to my plant list enlarge.

Then the fungus makes the ant hold on tightly to a leaf or branch while the fungus kills the ant.

It is the outer edge of a fungus system that is mostly underground.

Stowaway insects, fungus or other pests can travel vast distances to ecosystems that are unequipped to combat them.

Prevent this fungus by hosing off foliage in the morning several times a week to wash off spores.

These areas also had a greater variety of elm species and varieties, some of which had more resistance to the deadly fungus.

Many patients need other, long-term medicines to suppress the fungus and prevent another episode.

The fungus wriggles inside and snacks on the seeds, destroying them.

Pear trees are resistant to oak root fungus add to my plant list.

Black-brown spots mark the leaves of the orchid, mimicking the diseased look of a plant covered with fungus.

Symbiotic bacteria may help frogs and other amphibians ward off the chytrid fungus plague wiping out populations worldwide.

Known host of the fungus that causes sudden oak death.

White fungus and sticky sesame rice balls by ltsai crunchy white fungus and soft sticky rice balls.

Known host of the fungus that causes sudden oak death add to my plant list.

Many fungus species spend their lives in the soil as a fibrous mat called a mycelium.

The prehistoric fungus was found alongside worms that were likely snared as its prey, scientists say.

Aphids are the only animals that produce their own carotenoids--and they stole the genes to do it directly from a fungus in the.

More important, you can't grow lady-slippers without the help of a microscopic soil fungus often found in oak or pine woodlands.

So far the effort has produced a couple dozen trees on an experimental farm that are highly resistant to the blight fungus.

Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before.

The fungus kills the caterpiller by invading its organs.

Cicada researchers are also studying the effect of a fungus on cicada populations.

That's the fungus farmers at work, drilling through the trees and planting their fungus gardens".

The fungus does not pose a threat to the nation's potato crop.

The fungus infects cicadas as they emerge, sterilizing and killing them.

Or, the fungus may get out of hand and kill the seedling.

But after field-pummeling rock concerts and a turf-torching fungus wreaked havoc on the grounds last.

One strategy for fighting the chestnut blight is to infect the disease fungus with a virus that makes it relatively harmless.

The fungus fair season takes place from late autumn through early spring.

Octospora humosa is a disc-shaped fungus that shoots out highly-pressurized spores.

Fungicidal spraying is not appropriate now, the arborist noted, because the fungus has already taken hold.

However, research has yet to find a way to effectively deliver this fungus to a bee colony.

The big banana companies have been slow to finance efforts to find either a cure for the fungus or a banana that resists it.

It's engineered for fungus growing ants but you can get a sense of what a real ant terrarium is like.

Among his possessions were two walnut-size lumps of a tree fungus.

But at night a chemical reaction causes the fungus to emit an eerie green glow sometimes called foxfire.

Someone once said that you can judge a society by the way it treats its articles about fungus treatment.

The skin becomes infected as the fungus spreads throughout the.

The primary culprit is the deadly chytrid fungus which has devastated frog populations across the world.

Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before caused an outbreak in pistachios.

For reasons best known to truffles and trees, the fungus hugs the roots of oak and filbert trees.

Near the feet, two chunks of birch fungus on leather straps were recovered, along with a flint-bladed dagger and shoes.

So the high silica content didn't stop fungus deteriorating it.

Dry weather spurred the spread of the fungus that makes aflatoxin.

Technically, a lichen is a symbiotic partnership between a fungus and either algae or cyanobacteria.

Try the lamb steamed in banana leaves or fish with corn fungus.

But beware: while there's good fungus among us, the tasty porcini has some poisonous cousins.

Many of the problems are caused by fungus diseases that are particularly troublesome in wet springs.

Farmers and amateur mushroom hunters harvest the fungus for food and profit.

In one case, half the dead or living bats had the fungus.

These tacos are inspired by a dish made with a huitlacoche, a fungus that grows on corn.

Aspergillosis is caused by the fungus aspergillus, which is commonly found in nature but only rarely causes illness in people.

Black trumpets are almost as powerful as the high-priced fungus but are irresistible from the first bite.

The test result is normal if no bacteria, virus, or fungus grew in the laboratory dish.

Sometimes vast plantings can be ruined if the fungus is allowed to spread.

Many stopped flowering in part because of the invasion of a fungus called coffee rust.

Cryptococcus neoformans, the fungus that causes this disease, is ordinarily found in soil.

Main Entry:	yeast
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	rising agent
Synonyms:	catalyst, fermenter, foam, froth, fungus, leavening

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