clubroot
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]clubroot (countable and uncountable, plural clubroots)
- (phytopathology) A common disease of cabbages, radishes, turnips, and other plants of the Cruciferae, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which galls form on latent roots, rendering them clublike.
- Synonym: finger-and-toe
- A root thus affected.