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    CORNSMUT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A smut fungus attacking Indian cornplay

    Synonyms:

    corn smut; cornsmut

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cornsmut" is a kind of...):

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

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cornsmut"):

    boil smut; Ustilago maydis (a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass)

    Holonyms ("cornsmut" is a member of...):

    family Ustilaginaceae; Ustilaginaceae (a fungus family of loose smuts)

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