leaf rust: Meaning and Definition of

leaf' rust"

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— Plant Pathol. Plant Pathol.
  1. a disease, esp. of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
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