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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