USTILAGO

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts

Synonyms:

genus Ustilago; Ustilago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Ustilago" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "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)