curly top

English

curly top (uncountable)

(agriculture) A disease of beets, gourds, and other plants, caused by the virus Beet curly top virus, which results in stunted or misshapen growth and curled or puckered leaves.
- 1997 June 18, Karen Freeman, "Katherine Esau Is Dead at 99: A World Authority on Botany," New York Times (retrieved 19 May 2014):
  She soon joined the Spreckels Company near Salinas, Calif., where she worked on a sugar beet that would be resistant to the curly top virus.
- 2014 April 28, Patty Cafferata, "History: Leafhoppers trounced sugar beet investors," Reno Gazette Journal (retrieved 19 May 2014):
  [T]he local pigweed hosted microscopic leafhoppers that jumped from the surrounding weeds to the beet fields. The insects spread a virus commonly referred to as "curly top."

单词	curly top
释义	curly top English Noun curly top (uncountable) (agriculture) A disease of beets, gourds, and other plants, caused by the virus Beet curly top virus, which results in stunted or misshapen growth and curled or puckered leaves. 1997 June 18, Karen Freeman, "Katherine Esau Is Dead at 99: A World Authority on Botany," New York Times (retrieved 19 May 2014): She soon joined the Spreckels Company near Salinas, Calif., where she worked on a sugar beet that would be resistant to the curly top virus. 2014 April 28, Patty Cafferata, "History: Leafhoppers trounced sugar beet investors," Reno Gazette Journal (retrieved 19 May 2014): [T]he local pigweed hosted microscopic leafhoppers that jumped from the surrounding weeds to the beet fields. The insects spread a virus commonly referred to as "curly top." References curly top at OneLook Dictionary Search
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