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

2 senses of loose smut

Sense 1
loose smut -- (disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores)
       => smut -- (destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores)

Sense 2
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)
       => smut, smut fungus -- (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)