foot rot

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A degenerative bacterial infection of the feet in certain hoofed animals, especially cattle or sheep, often resulting in loss of the hoof.
• noun A fungal disease of plants in which the stem or trunk rots at its base.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A name applied to certain inflammatory affections about the hoof in cattle and sheep. Simple, contagious, and tuberculous foot-rot are distinguished.
• noun A disease of the orange and other citrous trees, supposed to be due to Fusarium Limonis, but also affected by the use of fertilizers and methods of cultivation. Also called gum-disease.
• noun Same as bottom-rot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A common infection of the hoof of animals such as cattle, sheep and goat.
• noun A disease of plants, affecting the stalk or the trunk.
• noun slang athlete's foot

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun contagious degenerative infection of the feet of hoofed animals (especially cattle and sheep)
• noun plant disease in which the stem or trunk rots at the base