boil smut
- noun
- /bɔɪl smʌt/
- Archaic
:
carbón de la mazorca
- Corn affected by boil smut shows greyish swellings that eventually rupture to expose a black spore mass.
Examples
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Controlling boil smut requires crop rotation and using disease-resistant varieties.
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Infected corn plants with boil smut often have swollen tissue that eventually bursts.
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The farmer noticed boil smut on several ears of corn in his field.
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The farmer discovered boil smut on his corn plants.
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Have you ever seen boil smuts in the field?
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To prevent boil smut, farmers should practice crop rotation and choose disease-resistant seeds.
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During routine inspections, the agronomist found boil smut on multiple corn stalks, indicating a need for treatment.
Synonyms
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A plant disease that makes black powder on grain plants like wheat
A disease caused by a fungus that makes big grey growths on corn ears
A fungus that infects corn, making greyish-white swellings that burst to show black powder
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'boil smut' straightforwardly combines 'boil' (a swelling/lesion) and 'smut' (a fungal disease producing black spores), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a smut disease that produces boil-like swellings and spore masses. This follows normal noun+noun compounding patterns used for plant diseases, making the overall meaning directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Boil smut comes from how the disease looks on corn. Infected plants form grey-white, boil-like bumps that burst and release a black smut mass, so the name describes this 'plant disease'.