summit disease (English, noun)
expansion: summit disease (countable and uncountable, plural summit diseases)
Senses:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A disease (usually fungal, caused by the species complex Entomophaga grylli) that affects various species of insect, especially grasshoppers, whereby the infected individual typically climbs to the upper parts of a plant, attaches itself there and dies, at which point the infecting agent disperses itself, usually in the form of spores.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: summit diseases
tags: plural