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Definition of Die back

1. Verb. Suffer from a disease that kills shoots. "The plants near the garage are dying back"

Definition of Die back

1. Verb. (context: of a plant) to wither, particularly during the winter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Die Back

Literary usage of Die back

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"manures to citrus groves invariably made conditions worse or increased the amount of " die- back." In accordance with the idea above expressed, ..."

2. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"DIE-BACK There appear to be at least two distinct die-back diseases, one in California, which is regarded as being due to a lack of water and other factors, ..."

3. Citrus Fruits and Their Culture by H. Harold Hume (1911)
"This disease takes its name from the fact that the young twigs and branches of affected trees die back to a distance of from two to eight inches, ..."

4. Anatomical Diagrams for the Use of Art Students by James M. Dunlop, John Cleland (1919)
"... Cervical vertebra of inserted into transverse processes TERES MINOR arises from die back of the Scapula it its axillary border and is inserted into the ..."

5. Peach-growing by Harris Perley Gould (1918)
"t Die-back (Valsa leucostoma) The economic importance of this disease was apparently first fully recognized in the United States by Rolfs,1 who in 1910 ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1817)
"... even while lying down, always produced a heat in die back, and she constantly felt a sensation as if bits of horse hair were pricking the back. ..."

7. The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir: A Pattern of Impunity by Physicians for Human Rights (U.S., Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Asia Watch Committee (U.S., Human Rights Watch (Organization), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1993)
"He got into die Iront seat ol die car, and a second man who abruptly joined him got into die back. Alter going for about one and a quarter kilometers, ..."

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