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smuts

A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | 177 words | Copyright

smuts A group of parasitic fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota. Many of these species attack the ears of cereal crops, replacing the grain by a mass of dark spores. Compare rusts.

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