GENUS USTILAGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ustilago mean? 

• GENUS USTILAGO (noun)
  The noun GENUS USTILAGO has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts

  Familiarity information: GENUS USTILAGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS USTILAGO (noun)

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ustilago; Ustilago

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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)