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melaxuma
[ mel-uh-koo-muh, -uh-zoo-, -uhk-soo- ]
noun
Plant Pathology.
- a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of melaxuma1
1930–35; < New Latin, irregular < Greek é ( s ) black + ý fluid (with x- representing Greek ch- )
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Melaxuma of the Walnut, "Juglans regia."
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