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LOOSE SMUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("loose smut" is a kind of...):
smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)
Holonyms ("loose smut" is a member of...):
genus Ustilago; Ustilago (type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("loose smut" is a kind of...):
smut (destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores)
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