Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disease of the grape-vine, especially that due to the phylloxera. See grape-mildew, grape-rot, and cut under
Phylloxera .
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Examples
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It is just the same with the vine -- propagated too long by layers or cuttings, its health has failed entirely, and it can no longer resist the ravages of the phylloxera or the slow attacks of the vine-disease fungus.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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His view is confirmed by some French and German investigators, one of whom, Dr. Delasiauve, has said that in the village of Careme, whose riches were in its vineyards, ten years 'comparative sobriety, enforced by vine-disease, had a sensible effect in diminishing the cases of idiocy.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 1856
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The _Malvasia_ is rarely cultivated, as it suffered inordinately from the vine-disease.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Half-a-dozen boats, some of them neat little feluccas with three masts, are drawn up on the beach: there is not much fishing; the vine-disease has raged, and the staple export consists of maize in some quantities; of _cantaria, _
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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It received two heavy blows -- in 1852 the vine-disease; and, since that time, a gradual decline of reputation as a sanatorium.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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