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Definition of Leaf cast
1. Noun. A disease of conifers causing the needles to fall.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaf Cast
Literary usage of Leaf cast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"Other names, such as leaf-browning, leaf-reddening and cracking-scurf, have been
applied to these diseases. In Europe the leaf-cast diseases of conifers ..."
2. Text-book of the Diseases of Trees by Robert Hartig (1894)
"the pine-leaf cast. Under the name " Pine-blight" (leaf-cast or shedding) the
most various diseases have been included. These attack young and old pines, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Control.—Get rid of insects such as potato beetle and burn all affected plants.
Picea. LEAF-SPOT and LEAF-CAST (Phoma »p. ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1869)
"Iron to be silvered is first provided with a coating of copper, upon which the
silver is applied either by means of amalgam or silver leaf. Cast-iron can be ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Let the wind take the green and the gray leaf, Cast forth without fruit upon air;
Take rose-leaf and vine-leaf and bay-leaf Blown loose from the hair. ..."
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