smut
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(verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn |
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Related Words: infect, taint |
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| 2. |
(verb) become affected with smut, as of corn |
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Related Words: mildew, mold |
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| 3. |
(verb) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot |
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Related Words: stain |
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(noun) any fungus of the order Usrilaginales |
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Synonyms: smut fungus |
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Related Words: Sphacelotheca, Sphacelotheca reiliana, Tilletia caries, Tilletia foetida, Urocystis cepulae, bunt, corn smut, cornsmut, covered smut, flag smut fungus, fungus, genus Sphacelotheca, head smut, loose smut, onion smut, stinking smut |
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(noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores |
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Related Words: bunt, false smut, flag smut, green smut, loose smut, plant disease, stinking smut |
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(noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink |
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Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, soot |
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Related Words: C, atomic number 6, carbon |
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