loose smut

loose smut

n (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 sporessmut fungus, smut - any fungus of the order Ustilaginalesgenus Ustilago, Ustilago - type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts