Sentence example with the word 'phylloxera'

phylloxera

Definition n. type genus of the Phylloxeridae: plant lice

Last update: July 3, 2015


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The vine has been attacked by the Oidium Tuckeri, the Phylloxera vastatrix and the Peronospora viticola, which in rapid succession wrought great havoc in Italian vineyards.   [Please select]

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We have to be very careful about getting grape vines from Europe to plant in this country on account of the phylloxera.   [Please select]

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I told you, Domini, that the vines were devoured by the phylloxera.   [Please select]

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Both of these are deadly poisons to the phylloxera as well as to man.   [Please select]

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This subject has peculiar interest to Americans, for the phylloxera is our evil gift to France.   [Please select]

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The American vineyards are by no means free from the phylloxera.   [Please select]

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Then came the Phylloxera, the vine-stocks perished and the once green table-land is now no more than a desolate stretch where a few tufts of hardy grasses sprout among the pebbles.   [Please select]

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