HyperDic: urocystis_tritici

English > 1 sense of the expression *Urocystis tritici*:
NOUN	plant	Urocystis tritici, wheat flag smut	fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat

English > *Urocystis tritici*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat.
Synonym	wheat flag smut
Broader	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