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Bordeaux mixture

noun

Antifungal agent consisting of a solution of copper sulphate and quicklime.

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... we had to fight in the vineyard was the rot, the black rot, an imported disease of the grape that for a few years swept everything. Then spraying with the Bordeaux mixture of lime and copper sulphate checked and finally stopped it altogether—but it was the early sprayings that counted. One year I remember Father neglected this, in his easy, optimistic way, and later, when the rot began, spraying was in vain, and I know that I ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Bordeaux mixture" : antimycotic, antifungal, antimycotic agent, antifungal agent, fungicide