Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of parasitic fungi, the type of the order Ustilagineæ, causing, under the name of smut, some of the most destructive of the fungus-diseases of plants.
- noun [lowercase] Smut. See
smut , 3.
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- noun Any of the
genus Ustilago ofsmut fungi parasitic ongrasses .
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- noun type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts
Etymologies
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From the genus name.
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