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black spot

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black spot
n.
Any of various fungal or bacterial diseases of plants, resulting in small black spots on the leaves or on other parts.

black spot
n
1. a place on a road where accidents frequently occur
2. any dangerous or difficult place
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plant Pathology) a disease of roses, Diplocarpon rosae, that causes circular black blotches on the leaves
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Noun1.black spot - any of several fungous diseases of plants that produce small black spots on the plant
plant disease - a disease that affects plants


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I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then.
Ahab's hat was never restored; the wild hawk flew on and on with it; far in advance of the prow: and at last disappeared; while from the point of that disappearance, a minute black spot was dimly discerned, falling from that vast height into the sea.
Bulstrode's eyes of an ugly black spot on the landscape at Stone Court, but not relieving him of the dread that the black spot might reappear and become inseparable even from the vision of his hearth.
 
 
 
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