ufra disease

noun

ˈüfrə-

: a disease of rice (as in India) caused by an eelworm (Ditylenchus angustus) and characterized by first whitish and then brownish leaf tips, stem distortion above the last node, and arrested development of the ear and in heavily attacked plants by decay

Word History

Etymology

probably from Arabic ʽufrah dust color

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