brown spot: Meaning and Definition of

brown' spot'

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— Plant Pathol. Plant Pathol.
  1. a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
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