HyperDic: flag_smut_fungus

English > 1 sense of the expression flag smut fungus:
NOUNplantflag smut fungusa 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
English > flag smut fungus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningA 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.
Member ofUrocystis, genus UrocystisA genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
Narrowerwheat flag smut, Urocystis triticifungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat
Broadersmut, smut fungusAny fungus of the order Ustilaginales

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