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    USTILAGO

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smutsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Ustilago; Ustilago

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

    Meronyms (members of "Ustilago"):

    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)

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

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