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

1 sense of flag smut fungus

Sense 1
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)
       => smut, smut fungus -- (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)