Pierce's disease
The English word “Pierce's disease” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
Etymology
Discovered in 1892 by Newton B. Pierce (1856–1916; California's first professional plant pathologist) on grapes in California near Anaheim, where it was known as Anaheim disease.
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