loose smut

Noun
  1. Disease of grains;
    The entire head is a dusty mass of spores (synset 114307411)
    is a type of: smut - destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
  2. 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 (synset 113087739)
    is a type of: smut, smut fungus - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
    belongs to: genus ustilago, ustilago - type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts

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