chestnut blight

collocation in English

meaningsofchestnutandblight

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chestnut
adjective
uk
/ˈtʃes.nʌt/us
/ˈtʃes.nʌt/
reddish-brown ...
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blight
noun
uk
/blaɪt/us
/blaɪt/
a disease that damages and ...
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(Definition ofchestnutandblightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Chinquapins ("castenea punita") grew abundantly in the surrounding prairie until thechestnutblightwiped them out.
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Today, chestnuts have been eliminated by the accidental importation ofchestnutblightin the early twentieth century.
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This region was historically dominated by various oaks and chestnuts, but hickory replaced chestnut with the spread of thechestnutblight.
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The chestnut also used to occur in this region before it was removed bychestnutblight.
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Most of the chestnuts died in thechestnutblightof the early 20th century.
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Some chestnuts, once the dominant canopy tree before thechestnutblight, survive as well.
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Before the species was devastated by thechestnutblight, a fungal disease, it was one of the most important forest trees throughout its range.
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Scientists then set out to introduce a hypovirus into thechestnutblightfungus.
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The cabin was constructed from chestnut logs prior to thechestnutblight.
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However, these were largely decimated bychestnutblightin the 1920s.
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Achestnutblightcame and devastated the stately trees in the town.
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Planted outside the natural range of chestnut, these trees escaped the initial wave of infection bychestnutblight, but in 1987, scientists found blight also in this stand.
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