"X-disease" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the convention of using \"X\" as a variable to stand for something unknown.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, United States. Animal Industry Bureau, Report of the Preliminary Survey on \"X\" Disease, page 10:",
          "text": "In making a diagnosis of X-disease, one must consider the insidious onset, slow course, and number of animals affected.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, United States. Agricultural Research Service, Hyperkeratosis (X-disease) of Cattle, page 5:",
          "text": "At the time of its first occurrence, nothing was known about the cause of X-disease or whether it could be treated and cured.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Comparison of Wood Preservatives in Stake Tests, page 128:",
          "text": "Crankcase oils may contain chlorinated naphthalenes, which have been reported to contribute to \"X-disease\" (hyperkeratosis) in cattle.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Donald Roberts, Richard Tren, Roger Bate, The Excellent Powder: DDT's Political and Scientific History, page 187:",
          "text": "For example, a 1940s claim attributed to DDT, without a shred of evidence, a mysterious cattle disease known as X-disease (discussed further in appendix 4).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various diseases of plants or animals whose origin was at first a mystery, especially:",
        "Hyperkeratosis in cattle."
      ],
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          "Hyperkeratosis",
          "hyperkeratosis"
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          "cattle",
          "cattle"
        ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, The Plant Disease Reporter, page 1024:",
          "text": "Transmission of X-disease was more erratic with peach than with chokecherry buds, possibly because only low titers of the X-disease mycoplasma-like organisms (MLO) are present in infected peach trees during most of the year.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 4544:",
          "text": "Studies of the phytoplasma associated with choke cherry X-disease in North Dakota.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Karl Maramorosch, Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, page 35:",
          "text": "A number of other yellows diseases of trees are of major importance throughout the world either because of local impact or widespread distribution. Among these are Prunus X-disease, pear decline, elm phloem necrosis, apple proliferation, the witches'—broom diseases of paulownia and jujube, and the greening and stubborn diseases of citrus.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various diseases of plants or animals whose origin was at first a mystery, especially:",
        "A disease of stone fruits caused by a form of mycoplasma."
      ],
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          "stone fruit",
          "stone fruit"
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        [
          "mycoplasma",
          "mycoplasma"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "X-disease"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From the convention of using \"X\" as a variable to stand for something unknown.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, United States. Animal Industry Bureau, Report of the Preliminary Survey on \"X\" Disease, page 10:",
          "text": "In making a diagnosis of X-disease, one must consider the insidious onset, slow course, and number of animals affected.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, United States. Agricultural Research Service, Hyperkeratosis (X-disease) of Cattle, page 5:",
          "text": "At the time of its first occurrence, nothing was known about the cause of X-disease or whether it could be treated and cured.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Comparison of Wood Preservatives in Stake Tests, page 128:",
          "text": "Crankcase oils may contain chlorinated naphthalenes, which have been reported to contribute to \"X-disease\" (hyperkeratosis) in cattle.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Donald Roberts, Richard Tren, Roger Bate, The Excellent Powder: DDT's Political and Scientific History, page 187:",
          "text": "For example, a 1940s claim attributed to DDT, without a shred of evidence, a mysterious cattle disease known as X-disease (discussed further in appendix 4).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various diseases of plants or animals whose origin was at first a mystery, especially:",
        "Hyperkeratosis in cattle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Hyperkeratosis",
          "hyperkeratosis"
        ],
        [
          "cattle",
          "cattle"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, The Plant Disease Reporter, page 1024:",
          "text": "Transmission of X-disease was more erratic with peach than with chokecherry buds, possibly because only low titers of the X-disease mycoplasma-like organisms (MLO) are present in infected peach trees during most of the year.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 4544:",
          "text": "Studies of the phytoplasma associated with choke cherry X-disease in North Dakota.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Karl Maramorosch, Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, page 35:",
          "text": "A number of other yellows diseases of trees are of major importance throughout the world either because of local impact or widespread distribution. Among these are Prunus X-disease, pear decline, elm phloem necrosis, apple proliferation, the witches'—broom diseases of paulownia and jujube, and the greening and stubborn diseases of citrus.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various diseases of plants or animals whose origin was at first a mystery, especially:",
        "A disease of stone fruits caused by a form of mycoplasma."
      ],
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        [
          "stone fruit",
          "stone fruit"
        ],
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          "mycoplasma",
          "mycoplasma"
        ]
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  ],
  "word": "X-disease"
}