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black point

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black point [′blak ‚point]
(plant pathology)
A disease of wheat and other cereals characterized by blackening of the embryo ends of the grains.


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; during which time, by reason of the rays refracted by its atmosphere, the terrestrial globe can appear as nothing but a black point upon the sun.
At last, he took a pencil and pointed out an imperceptible black point in the scallops of an oval blotch, adding: "There it is.
 
 
 
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