Dutch elm disease
noun/ˌdʌtʃ ˈelm dɪziːz/
/ˌdʌtʃ ˈelm dɪziːz/
[uncountable]- a disease that kills elm treesCultureDutch elm disease is caused by a fungus carried by a type of insect. It seriously affected elm trees in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, killing about 20 million of them.
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