black arm: Meaning and Definition of

black' arm"

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— Plant Pathol. Plant Pathol.
  1. a type or phase of bacterial blight of cotton, characterized by black, elongated lesions on the stem and branches, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas malvacearum.
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