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| Colorful English! | ||||
| Word or Phrase: | Part of Speech: | Idiom or General?: | Usage? | Restricted? |
| brown rot | noun | general, semi-technical | not uncommon | No |
| Meaning: | ||||
| a disease of fruits with pits (stones) caused by a fungus | ||||
| Example(s): | ||||
| Those peaches had to be thrown away because they had brown rot. | ||||
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