slime disease

noun

variants: or slime sickness

Definition of slime disease

: any of several bacterial diseases of plants marked by slimy rot especially : a destructive disease of tobacco caused by a bacterium (Pseudomonas solanacearum) and usually contracted in the seedbed

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