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| chest·nut blight |
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fungal disease that kills chestnut trees: a disease that kills chestnut trees and is especially destructive to North American chestnuts. It is caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica and was probably imported from Asia into the United States in the early 20th century.
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