black spot
noun
1
: any of several bacterial or fungal diseases of plants characterized by black spots or blotches especially on the leaves
2
chiefly British
: a dangerous or troublesome place or area
… Wisteria Lane has always been a major accident black spot.—
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There are certain fruit-bearing plants (like tomatoes) that will sometimes develop black spots on their fruits when the tissue breaks down, and these black spots are caused by calcium deficiency.
—Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
Plus, the cover of the novel had an illustration of a Great Dane on it—a Harlequin Dane, white with black spots, in a red collar.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
In a new summer exhibit to celebrate cicadas at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Hurley pointed to a mural of a ghostly white cicada shedding its exoskeleton with two black spots on its thorax.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
The 30,000 Hertz is now selling are the latest black spot in its experiment with EVs, which some reports estimate have cost the American rental giant as much as $440 million.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 1 May 2024
Brown to black spots with diffuse, feathery margins on the upper surface of leaves, with leaves often turning yellow and defoliating.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
Eye floaters are tiny specks in your field of vision that may look like black spots or squiggly lines.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
The symptoms are very distinctive: the stems of the plants will turn black, there will be black spots on the leaves, and the most distinctive symptom is the plant will defoliate in sections.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
Other signs include black spots on flowers and stunted growth.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2024
Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
Plus, the cover of the novel had an illustration of a Great Dane on it—a Harlequin Dane, white with black spots, in a red collar.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
In a new summer exhibit to celebrate cicadas at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Hurley pointed to a mural of a ghostly white cicada shedding its exoskeleton with two black spots on its thorax.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
The 30,000 Hertz is now selling are the latest black spot in its experiment with EVs, which some reports estimate have cost the American rental giant as much as $440 million.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 1 May 2024
Brown to black spots with diffuse, feathery margins on the upper surface of leaves, with leaves often turning yellow and defoliating.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
Eye floaters are tiny specks in your field of vision that may look like black spots or squiggly lines.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
The symptoms are very distinctive: the stems of the plants will turn black, there will be black spots on the leaves, and the most distinctive symptom is the plant will defoliate in sections.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
Other signs include black spots on flowers and stunted growth.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2024
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