Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of pyrenomycetous fungi of the family Hypocreaceæ having the perithecia membranous, single, or variously aggregated on a stroma, and usually bright-colored.
- noun pl. nectrias. Any fungus of the genus Nectria. See
apple-tree and plum canker, cacao and coral-spotdisease , and Tubercularia.
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Examples
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Blight in chestnuts, nectria canker and blight in black walnuts, blight in filberts (Cryptosporella), scab in pecans, and die-back Melanconium oblongum in butternuts.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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A second problem is cottony scale, an insect that taps into tree bark, introducing another fungus, nectria.
NYT > Home Page By CORNELIA DEAN 2011
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