loose smut
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plant Pathology) a disease of cereal grasses caused by smut fungi of the genus Ustilago, in which powdery spore masses replace the host tissue
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| Noun | 1. |  loose smut - disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of sporessmut - destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores |
| 2. | 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 smut fungus, smut - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales genus Ustilago, Ustilago - type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts |
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