A serious bacterial disease of plants of the rose family, especially fruit trees, giving the leaves a scorched appearance.
梨火疫（蔷薇科植物的一种严重细菌性疾病，常致使枝叶呈枯焦状）
The bacterium is the Gram-negative Erwinia amylovora
Example sentencesExamples
Growers fear imported apples may bring in the disease fireblight.
Australia currently bans the import of New Zealand apples because it fears the fireblight bacterial disease.
Orchardists are concerned the bacterial disease fireblight could be imported into Australia, with devastating effects on the local fruit industry.
In the latter case, growers will be much cheered by the news yesterday that Japan is finally to end its non-tariff barrier to our fruit by dropping the pretence that it poses a fireblight risk to their own.
Australian growers remain concerned about the risk of the disease fireblight being introduced to their orchards.
Definition of fireblight in US English:
fireblight
nounˈfaɪ(ə)rˌblaɪtˈfī(ə)rˌblīt
A serious bacterial disease of plants of the rose family, especially fruit trees, giving the leaves a scorched appearance.
梨火疫（蔷薇科植物的一种严重细菌性疾病，常致使枝叶呈枯焦状）
The bacterium is Erwinia amylovora
Example sentencesExamples
In the latter case, growers will be much cheered by the news yesterday that Japan is finally to end its non-tariff barrier to our fruit by dropping the pretence that it poses a fireblight risk to their own.
Orchardists are concerned the bacterial disease fireblight could be imported into Australia, with devastating effects on the local fruit industry.
Growers fear imported apples may bring in the disease fireblight.
Australia currently bans the import of New Zealand apples because it fears the fireblight bacterial disease.
Australian growers remain concerned about the risk of the disease fireblight being introduced to their orchards.