Lexic.us

2. Noun. A fungus, ''Uncinula necator '', that produces powdery mildew in grapes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oidium

1. a type of fungus [n OIDIA] : OIDIOID [adj] - See also: fungus

Medical Definition of Oidium

1. A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes. Origin: NL, dim. Fr. Gr. Egg. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Oidium

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

1. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"The higher powers of the microscope are required to .show the exact nature of the oidium of turnips. A minute fragment must be cut from an infected place on ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1904)
"patches—thirty or forty yards square—of young plants of Trifolium pratense, on which an oidium was so plentiful that the plants looked as though covered ..."

3. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"The oidium occurs in human lesions in the form of spherical bodies which may reach a size of thirty microns. They consist of an irregularly staining mass of ..."

4. Diseases of Children by Abraham Jacobi (1910)
"In the new-born the oidium albicans often causes a peculiar infection of the ... It is also believed that the oidium albicans collects and multiplies upon ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1855)
"By many it is asked, Is the oidium the cause, or consequence, of the disease of the vine ? The vine, one party says, is over-cultivated and liable to ..."

6. Urinary Analysis and Diagnosis by Microscopical and Chemical Examination by Louis Heitzmann (1915)
"oidium LACTIS (X 500). may be mistaken for mucus, connective tissue, or even granular casts from the ... Besides the oidium lactis, both the penicillium ..."

7. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"Tn the month or June the gall louse [oidium ?J attacked the leaves, together with a dull yellow beetle, and destroyed all the leaves, in consequence of ..."

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