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USTILAGO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ustilago mean?
• USTILAGO (noun)
The noun USTILAGO has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts
Familiarity information: USTILAGO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Ustilago; Ustilago
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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