Smut Fungus Definition
noun
Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi chiefly of the class Ustilaginomycetes that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.
American Heritage Medicine
A fungus causing such a disease.
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