smut : Idioms & Phrases

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boil smut

  • noun a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass
    Ustilago maydis.
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corn smut

  • noun a smut fungus attacking Indian corn
    cornsmut.
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covered smut

  • noun a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes
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false smut

  • noun disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia
    false smut.
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flag smut

  • noun smut affecting leaves and stems of cereals and other grasses
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flag smut fungus

  • noun a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores
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green smut

  • noun disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia
    false smut.
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green smut fungus

  • noun fungus causing green smut in rice
    Ustilaginoidea virens.
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head smut

  • noun smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut
    Sphacelotheca reiliana.
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jan christian smuts

  • noun South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
    Smuts.
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loose smut

  • noun disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores
  • noun a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores
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onion smut

  • noun smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings
    Urocystis cepulae.
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smut fungus

  • noun any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
    smut.
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smut grass

  • noun grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus
    Sporobolus poiretii; blackseed; carpet grass.
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Smut mill

  • a machine for cleansing grain from smut.
Webster 1913

stinking smut

  • noun disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
    bunt.
  • noun similar to Tilletia caries
    Tilletia foetida; bunt.
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wheat flag smut

  • noun fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat
    Urocystis tritici.
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