tilletia
Noun
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A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae (synset 113088833)
is a type of: fungus genus - includes lichen generamember holonym:
- bunt, tilletia caries - fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
- bunt, stinking smut, tilletia foetida - similar to Tilletia caries
belongs to: family tilletiaceae, tilletiaceae - a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical clustersame as: genus tilletia
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