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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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