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head smut
noun
Plant Pathology.
- a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
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It looks normal, but the plant’s flowers contain spores of head smut instead of its own seeds.
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Another fungus, called head smut, had effectively castrated the plant.
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