pomaceous

pome +‎ -aceous

pomaceous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a pome.
   • 1914, Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, and of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Issue 26, Part 1, page 321:

     The disease occurs throughout the United States and Canada in practically every section where pomaceus fruits are grown.

   • 1921, Torrey Botanical Club, Torreya, volumes 21-23, page 17:

     The brown rots of pomaceous and drupaceous fruits are due to fungi, at least one of which was first described by Persoon in 1796 as Torula fructigena.

   • 2007, “Association of moulds to foods”, in Jan Dijksterhuis, Robert A. Samson, editors, Food Mycology: A Multifaceted Approach to Fungi and Food, page 210:

     Pomaceous and stone fruits can be degraded by a number of pathogenic species including Monilia laxa, M. fructigena and Rhizopus stolonifer.

2. (botany) That bears apples or pomes.
   • 1916, State Entomologist, Annual Report of the State Entomologist of Indiana, number 8, page 115:

     Cedar rust is characteristic of the “double host” rusts and needs two hosts, namely apple or other pomaceous plants and red cedar before it can complete its life cycle.

   • 1978, Pascal P. Pirone, Diseases and Pests of Ornamental Plants, page 144:

     This bacterium^{[Erwinia amylovora]} commonly affects most pomaceous trees and shrubs.

   • 1983, E. L. Barnard, Wayne Neal Dixon, Insects and Diseases: Important Problems of Florida's Forest and Shade Tree Resources, page 75:

     Infected foliage on the pomaceous, alternate hosts apppears during the summer or fall and is characterized by spots or large areas of yellow-orange discoloration and varying degrees of deformation.

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