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S: (n) Tilletia, genus Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

S: (n) Tilletiaceae, family Tilletiaceae (a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster)

S: (n) bunt, Tilletia caries (fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores)
S: (n) bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida (similar to Tilletia caries)

S: (n) covered smut (a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) cornsmut, corn smut (a smut fungus attacking Indian corn)
S: (n) Sphacelotheca, genus Sphacelotheca (genus of smut fungus)
S: (n) head smut, Sphacelotheca reiliana (smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut)
S: (n) bunt, Tilletia caries (fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores)
S: (n) bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida (similar to Tilletia caries)
S: (n) onion smut, Urocystis cepulae (smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings)

S: (n) flag smut fungus (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 black masses of spores)

S: (n) taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon (animal or plant group having natural relations)

S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)

S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))