BLACK SPOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several fungous diseases of plants that produce small black spots on the plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("black spot" is a kind of...):

plant disease (a disease that affects plants)

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 Context examples: 

But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim—him above all.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)