Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ustilago_maydis

1 sense of ustilago maydis

Sense 1
boil smut, Ustilago maydis -- (a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass)
       => cornsmut, corn smut -- (a smut fungus attacking Indian corn)