Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

huanglongbing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: huang-long-bing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bacterial infection of citrus trees.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Eventually Halbert got to the bottom of her list to the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world—huanglongbing, Chinese for “yellow dragon disease.” Huanglongbing, which is also called HLB or citrus greening, had been spreading slowly through India, China, Indonesia and South Africa.[...] Researchers began injecting antibiotics into tree trunks and looking for resistant genes to splice into orange trees. But huanglongbing continues to spread."

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃龍病／黄龙病 (huánglóngbìng), literally "yellow dragon disease".

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

citrus dieback citrus vein phloem degeneration citrus greening citrus greening disease HLB leaf mottle yellows likubin yellow dragon disease yellow shoot disease

Questions

What does huanglongbing mean?: A bacterial infection of citrus trees.
Where does huanglongbing come from?: From Mandarin 黃龍病／黄龙病 (huánglóngbìng), literally "yellow dragon disease".

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