FLAG SMUT FUNGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flag smut fungus mean? 

• FLAG SMUT FUNGUS (noun)
  The noun FLAG SMUT FUNGUS has 1 sense:

1. a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores

  Familiarity information: FLAG SMUT FUNGUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAG SMUT FUNGUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flag smut fungus" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flag smut fungus"):

Urocystis tritici; wheat flag smut (fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat)

Holonyms ("flag smut fungus" is a member of...):

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