SUNSCALD


Meaning of SUNSCALD in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun

: an injury of woody plants (as fruit or forest trees) characterized by localized death of the tissues and sometimes by cankers and caused when it occurs in the summer by the combined action of both the heat and light of the sun — see winter sunscald

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