Meaning & use
clubroot
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Meaning
noununcountabletechnicalbiology
A serious disease of plants in the cabbage family that makes the roots swell into lumps and stops the plant growing well.
Grammar: No plural; used like 'a disease' but without 'a'.
Patterns
- clubroot disease
- clubroot in something
- clubroot on something
The farmer lost most of his cabbage crop to clubroot.
Clubroot is caused by a soil organism that can survive for many years.
You can reduce clubroot by improving soil drainage and rotating crops.
Common combinations
- clubroot disease
- Clubroot disease is difficult to control once it is in the soil.
- clubroot infection
- A clubroot infection can spread quickly in wet conditions.
- clubroot resistance
- Some varieties of broccoli have clubroot resistance.
- clubroot control
- Clubroot control usually involves crop rotation and liming.
Commonly confused: clubroot or root rot?
clubroot vs root rot
Root rot is a general term for several diseases that decay roots; clubroot specifically causes swollen, club-shaped roots in cabbage-family plants.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'clubroot' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Clubroot is an uncountable noun for the disease, so it takes a singular verb and no article. 'A clubroot' is wrong because it is not countable, and 'applied clubroot' is wrong because you do not apply a disease.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “clubroot”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.