smut

Type of:: C, atomic number 6, carbon
an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds

Types:: bawdry, bawdy
lewd or obscene talk or writing; scatology
a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)

Types:: child pornography, kiddie porn, kiddy porn
the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films

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disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores; bunt, stinking smut
disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; flag smut
smut affecting leaves and stems of cereals and other grasses; false smut, green smut
disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia

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a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes; loose smut
a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores; corn smut, cornsmut
a smut fungus attacking Indian corn; Sphacelotheca, genus Sphacelotheca
genus of smut fungus; Sphacelotheca reiliana, head smut
smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut; Tilletia caries, bunt
fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; Tilletia foetida, bunt, stinking smut
similar to Tilletia caries; Urocystis cepulae, onion smut
smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings; 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; Ustilago maydis, boil smut
a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass; Urocystis tritici, wheat flag smut
fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat

Type of:: fungus
an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia

“the corn smutted and could not be eaten”

“This line in the play smuts the entire act”

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

DEFINITIONS OF: smut