| NOUN | plant | corn smut, cornsmut | a smut fungus attacking Indian corn |
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| Meaning | A smut fungus attacking Indian corn. | |
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| Synonym | cornsmut | |
| Member of | Ustilaginaceae, family Ustilaginaceae | A fungus family of loose smuts |
| Narrower | boil smut, Ustilago maydis | A common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass |
| Broader | smut, smut fungus | Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales |
| Spanish | cornsmut, huitlacoche | |
| Catalan | cornsmut | |
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