Relating to or causing blastophthoria; affecting bud development in a damaging way.
From blastophthoria + '-ic' (suffix). Developed in botany and plant pathology literature of the 19th-20th centuries.
The '-ic' suffix in scientific terms is like adding a label that says 'this is the adjective version'—it helped botanists quickly communicate which diseases they were discussing in research papers.
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