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loose smut

DEFINITIONS OF: loose smut

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n 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

Type of:
smut, smut fungus
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales

n disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores

Type of:
smut
destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
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