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noun
The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, phytopathology, sciences
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noun
The withering of a plant, especially the cyclical withering in autumn and winter; distal parts die off but core parts stay alive (and semidormant or dormant).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant disease
History
Deverbal from die back.
