COVERED SMUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("covered smut" is a kind of...):

smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

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