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Definition of Coffee fungus

1. Noun. Fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Fungus

Literary usage of Coffee fungus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Year in Fiji: Or, An Inquiry Into the Botanical, Agricultural, and by John Horne (1881)
"... spores of the coffee fungus, which has so disastrously affected the coffee plant in that island of late years should be imported along with them. ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"Disharmonious, blundering man was responsible for its brief triumph and celebrity. Dame Nature had not allowed the coffee fungus more than a ..."

3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1870)
"New coffee fungus—The Rev. MJ Berkeley forwards to the ' Gardener's Chronicle ' a letter from the well-known botanist, Mr. Thwaites, of Ceylon, ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The absence from Guam of the coffee fungus, Hemileia vastatrix, во widely distributed throughout the Old World Tropics and so destructive to the coffee ..."

5. The Kingdom of Man by Edwin Ray Lankester (1907)
"Disharmonious, blundering man was responsible for its brief triumph and celebrity. Dame Nature had not allowed the coffee fungus more ..."

6. Madagascar, Mauritius and Other East-African Islands by Conrad Keller (1901)
"The coffee fungus has established itself among the natural enemies of cultivation, so that now the Liberia coffee, which withstands it better, ..."

7. Ceylon in the "jubilee Year.": With an Account of the Progress Made Since by John Ferguson (1887)
"Many of the coffee planters ran belts of rubber trees and cinchona between his coffee bushes, thus helping to check the spread of the dread coffee fungus. ..."

8. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"Ralph Aber- cromby, FMS Royal Horticultural Society, Nov. п.—Scientific Committee.—A. Murray, FLS, in the chair.—Specimens of the coffee fungus ..."

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