STINKING SMUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stinking smut mean? 

• STINKING SMUT (noun)
  The noun STINKING SMUT has 2 senses:

1. disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores

2. similar to Tilletia caries

  Familiarity information: STINKING SMUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STINKING SMUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bunt; stinking smut

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

smut (destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Similar to Tilletia caries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bunt; stinking smut; Tilletia foetida

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

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

Holonyms ("stinking smut" is a member of...):

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)