The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCABS , but the solution may also be SMUTS which is one of the most recent solution (2007 in New York Times).
Plant diseases crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SCABS | 40 % | 5 |
| SMUTS | 20 % | 5 |
| ROTS | 20 % | 4 |
| CANKERS | 20 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Plant diseases
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- plant life
- infestations
- endemic disease
- poisonous plant
- plant genus
- infectious disease
- pathogens
- fungicides
- pesticides
- plants
- epidemic disease
- invasive species
Crossword Answer definitions
SCABS noun- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- The scabies.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
- To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- To remove part of a surface (from).
- To act as a strikebreaker.
- To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SCABS
- Line-crossers, perhaps
- Strikebreakers
- Strike-breakers
- Picket-line crossers
- Union's foes
- Strike-defying finks
- Strike breakers
- Replacement players, perhaps
- Unpopular workers
- Wound covers
More clues leading to the result SMUTS
- Boer leader
- South African statesman Jan
- Former S. African leader
- Notable South African
- South African statesman
- WW II South African prime minister
- Taints with soot
- Head of Union of South Africa.
- Prime Minister of U. S. A.
- Recent host to British royalty.