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A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
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dieback
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n. (context biology English) The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions
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n. a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
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Dieback may refer to a number of plant problems and diseases including: Forest dieback caused by acid rain, heavy metal pollution, or imported pathogens The death of regions of a plant or similar organism caused by physical damage, such as from pruning ...
Usage examples of dieback.
Drought, fire, dieback, desert spreading and spreading, while the heat mounts.
If they helped make our earliest atmospheres, they then may have suffered a great dieback when oxygen-making organisms began.
The yard was as shaggy as he remembered it, with the same old locust trees more decrepit than ever with dieback, dropping branches on the yard.
This would have to be eventually supplemented by energy from the Mill, or some other source, or dieback, and actual human death on a large scale, would begin.
There has been another full-scale dieback in North Africa due to drought and lack of food reserves.
The Geography of Calamity: Geopolitics of Human Dieback by John Holdren.
TV images of diebacks -- the sudden, catastrophic collapse of whole life support structures on a regional level, the Four Horsemen writ large.
Apparently thats happened several times before, at intervals of a third of a billion years--great diebacks of intelligent life, leaving only spores.
Apparently that's happened several times before, at intervals of a third of a billion yearsgreat diebacks of intelligent life, leaving only spores.