Noun
a blight of potatoes
Source: WordNetMuch as Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) had insisted in 1841 that the fungus found in potato blight was the cause of the disease, de Bary declared that the rust and smut fungi were the causes of the pathological changes in diseased plants. Source: Internet
The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine.sfn Still other critics saw reflected in the government's response its attitude to the so-called "Irish Question". Source: Internet