English > smut fungus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales. |
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| Synonym | smut |
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| Member of | Ustilaginales, order Ustilaginales | Parasitic fungi causing smuts |
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| Narrower | Sphacelotheca, genus Sphacelotheca | genus of smut fungus |
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| 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 |
| cornsmut, corn smut | A smut fungus attacking Indian corn |
| covered smut | A smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes |
| flag smut fungus | A 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 |
| head smut, Sphacelotheca reiliana | smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut |
| loose smut | A smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head / head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores |
| onion smut, Urocystis cepulae | smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions |
| Broader | fungus | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter |
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| Spanish | carbón, hongo carbón |
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