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Definition of Blights
1. blight [v] - See also: blight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blights
Literary usage of Blights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Very good examples of the black fungi are furnished by the blights which occur
on the ... The fruits of the blights are many of them remarkable for their ..."
2. Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, in the State by Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts (1819)
"On the Destructive Effects of the Aphis and blights on Fruit-Trees ; with useful
Observations for preventing them. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. of Elton, ..."
3. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"Early in the year, these ' blights' are scattered along the stem» ; but as soon
as the Utile ones come to light, and commence sap-sucking close to their ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1895)
"... we can hope to attain ; and the pessimism which blights noble aspirations and
checks the growth of true moral ideas would seem to be sound philosophy. ..."
5. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1802)
"... of what are termed blights in plants, forms a highly interesting tribe of
infects. In point of number, the individuals of the ..."
6. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Very good examples of the black fungi are furnished by the blights which occur
on the ... The fruits of the blights are many of them remarkable for their ..."
7. Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, in the State by Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts (1819)
"On the Destructive Effects of the Aphis and blights on Fruit-Trees ; with useful
Observations for preventing them. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. of Elton, ..."
8. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"Early in the year, these ' blights' are scattered along the stem» ; but as soon
as the Utile ones come to light, and commence sap-sucking close to their ..."
9. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1895)
"... we can hope to attain ; and the pessimism which blights noble aspirations and
checks the growth of true moral ideas would seem to be sound philosophy. ..."
10. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1802)
"... of what are termed blights in plants, forms a highly interesting tribe of
infects. In point of number, the individuals of the ..."
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