| NOUN | plant | Tilletia, genus Tilletia | a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae |
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| Meaning | A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae. | |
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| Synonym | genus Tilletia | |
| Member of | Tilletiaceae, family Tilletiaceae | A family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster |
| Members | 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 | |
| Broader | fungus genus | Includes lichen genera |
| Spanish | género tilletia, genus tilletia, tilletia | |
| Catalan | genus tilletia, tilletia, Tilletia | |
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