brown heart

noun

1

: acapu

2

a

: a physiological disease of stored apples and pears caused by too great a concentration of carbon dioxide and characterized by internal browning

b

: a disease of turnips and related plants caused by a deficiency of boron and characterized by gray or brownish mottling of the outer xylem region of the root

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