esca
esca — noun
1. a disease that attacks grapevines from the inside, caused by several types of fu
a disease that attacks grapevines from the inside, caused by several types of fungus living in the wood. It makes dark marks appear on the leaves and can slowly kill the plant.
The vineyard owner in Tuscany lost thirty old vines to esca during the dry summer.
collocation: lost ___ to esca
Soraya, an agricultural inspector, identified esca in several vineyards near Santiago.
verb pattern: identify / detect esca
Meera, a plant pathologist, studied the spread of esca in French vineyards for ten years.
Rodrigo sprays his grapevines with a protective fungicide to keep esca from taking hold.
The winery replaced all infected vines after esca destroyed nearly half of the oldest section.
- black measles
the informal common name for the same disease, more descriptive of the leaf symptoms
用法筆記
Esca is a technical term used mainly in viticulture and plant pathology. The same disease is also called black measles. It usually affects older vines and progresses slowly over several years.