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GENUS USTILAGO
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts
Synonyms:
genus Ustilago; Ustilago
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Ustilago" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Ustilago"):
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)
boil smut; Ustilago maydis (a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass)
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