smut
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- noun
- /smʌt/
- Specialized
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- Perhaps the most extreme case of this is the Mexican corn smut known to science as Ustilago maydis.
- corn smut
- smut fungus
- smut and rust
Examples
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During his research, he discovered that smut can severely diminish the yield of certain cereal grains.
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The president said today, "So long as I am in the White House, there will be no relaxation of the national effort to control and eliminate smut."
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- Smuts...
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Plant diseases caused by fungi include rusts, smuts, and leaf, root, and stem rots.
Academic text (2005) -
The general Latin term "fungus" sounds funny and spreads too wide a net, taking in all sorts of woody things that grow like shelves high on trees and smuts that spread their gray mass on corn ears.
Academic text (1990) -
If you notice smut on the corn, it is important to remove the affected plants to prevent spreading.
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The farmers learned that controlling smut required careful monitoring of their crops and proper fungicides.
Synonyms
A disease caused by a fungus that makes dark powdery spots on grain plants
A disease of wheat or barley that turns the grain head into a powder of fungus
A disease of wheat and other grasses that makes dark powdery streaks on leaves and stems
A disease of wheat and other grasses that makes dark streaks and black dust
Plant disease that attacks wheat leaves and stems, causing dark streaks and lower crop yields
A disease of grain caused by a fungus that makes dark powder inside the husks
A fungal disease that makes corn or sorghum flowers turn into a black spore mass covered by a thin skin
A disease that affects wheat and similar grains, turning grains into dark, smelly masses
A disease of corn that makes grey-white bumps burst and show black dust
A disease caused by a fungus that makes big grey growths on corn ears
A disease caused by a fungus that makes black blisters on onion leaves and young plants
A disease of rice that covers the grains with a green powder of fungus spores
A disease of rice that covers grains with a green powder
Compounds
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A disease of grain caused by a fungus that makes dark powder inside the husks
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A disease of rice that covers the grains with a green powder of fungus spores
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A disease of wheat and other grasses that makes dark streaks and black dust
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A disease of wheat and other grasses that makes dark powdery streaks on leaves and stems
- Specialized
A disease of wheat or barley that turns the grain head into a powder of fungus
- Specialized
A fungal disease that makes corn or sorghum flowers turn into a black spore mass covered by a thin skin
- Specialized
A disease caused by a fungus that makes black blisters on onion leaves and young plants
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A small living thing that grows on plants and makes black dusty spots often on wheat or corn
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A disease that affects wheat and similar grains, turning grains into dark, smelly masses
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Plant disease that attacks wheat leaves and stems, causing dark streaks and lower crop yields
Surface Forms
Etymology
Smut for the plant disease comes from the idea of black, sooty spots on grain made by a fungus. Farmers called the illness 'smut' because the plants looked covered in 'soot', which is why the name describes that black fungal disease.