WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
leaf′ rust′, [Plant Pathol.]
  1. Plant Diseasesa 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.
  • 1860–65


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