COVERED SMUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does covered smut mean? 

• COVERED SMUT (noun)
  The noun COVERED SMUT has 1 sense:

1. a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COVERED SMUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("covered smut" is a kind of...):

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