Blackleg
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Blackleg or black-legged may refer to:
- Anything with a black-colored leg
- Appalousa tribe
- Blackleg labour (or strikebreaking)
- Card sharp
- Operation Blackleg, dive operation on warship HMS Coventry (D118)
Disease
- Blackleg (disease), in sheep and cattle
- Blackleg (Brassica) in rapeseed and other mustard-and-cabbage-family plants, caused by fungus Leptosphaeria maculans
- Blackleg (potatoes), caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum
- Blackleg (geraniums), caused by quasi-fungi of Pythium
- Scurvy, deficiency in primates & some other animals
Species
- Black-leg, a common name for the polypore fungus Royoporus badius
- Black-legged Kittiwake, seagull species
- Black-legged Seriema, seriema bird species
- Blackleg Tortoiseshell, another name for the Large Tortoiseshell butterfly
- Animals named as black-legged
See also
- Blackley, Manchester, England
- Blackledge (disambiguation)
- Black Legion (disambiguation)
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