smut

noun

1. 1.

   uncountable

   Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.

2. 2.

   phytopathology

   Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.

3. 3.

   countable

   A flake of ash or soot.

verb

1. 1.

   transitive

   To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.

2. 2.

   Become affected with smut

   “The corn smutted and could not be eaten.”

3. 3.

   intransitive

   To become tainted by the smut fungus.

4. 4.

   transitive

   To clear of the smut fungus.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• smut grassnounCompound term

  Grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus.

• smut fungusnounCompound term

  Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.

• covered smutnounCompound term

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

• false smutnounCompound term

  Disease of rice.

• flag smutnounCompound term

  Smut affecting leaves and stems of cereals and other grasses.

• flag smut fungusnounCompound term

  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…