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smut
/ smət/
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n.
1.
a small flake of soot or other dirt.
∎
a mark or smudge made by such a flake.
2.
a disease of grains in which parts of the ear change to black powder, caused by a fungus of the order Ustilaginales.
3.
obscene or lascivious talk, writing, or pictures.
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v.
(smutted
, smutting
) [tr.] [often as adj.] (smutted)
1.
mark with flakes or soot or other dirt.
2.
infect (a plant) with smut:
smutted wheat.
DERIVATIVES:
smut·ti·ly
/ -təlē/ adv.
smut·ti·ness
n.
smut·ty
adj.
(smut·ti·er
, smut·ti·est
) .
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Influence of corn smut on the palatability and digestibility of corn silage
Magazine article from: Professional Animal Scientist; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Influence of Corn Smut on the Palatability and Digestibility of Corn Silage1,2 Abstract Common corn smut (Ustilago maydis) can have adverse effects...conducted to determine the effects of common corn smut on the chemical composition, palatability...
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 "The Star (South Africa)")
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It's inaccurate to portray Smuts in same light as Verwoerd.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa); 8/24/2006; 700+ words
; ...August 22 2006) is right to point out that Jan Smuts had racist ideas. But is this surprising? Smuts was born in the late 19th century, and he...us - a product of his time and environment. Smuts's contemporaries Franklin Roosevelt and Winston...
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The war against smut.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/20/2002; 700+ words
; ...against poverty," there is also this war against smut: dirty books, comics, and movies. Smut, of course, is the dubious entertainment of...is called), and not be harmed at all. But smut is bad for the poor. It arouses prurient desires...
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Corn Smut: A Reputation Redeemed
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...old favorite sweet corn variety, has a reputation for smut. Not the lurid kind. The kind that erupts from an...anyone who grows corn has made its acquaintance. Corn smut, or common smut as it is sometimes called to distinguish it from a stringier...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Corn smut doesn't have to be a bad thing
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 9/2/2007; ; 602 words
; Smut doesn't sound like something that you'd want in your corn patch...even though it's a disease of corn. You've probably seen smut popping out of your ears. Smut oozes from between the husks, looking like corn kernels pumped...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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'SMUT' SEEKS LESS-TRASHY WORLD SEX-INDUSTRY INSIDER, PARENT TAKES OFFENSE AT AGGRESSIVE NATURE.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 5/6/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...And that's the distracting lure of smut. It's everywhere - on the Internet...children. Author Gil Reavill believes smut has reached its critical mass in society...her to grow up in a less-trashy world. Smut draws readers in like moths to a porch...
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SMUT--Not Always a Bad Word in Sugarcane Country.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...time when most concerned citizens want to wipe out smut, Rex W. Millhollon is trying to encourage it. His...fight a noxious southern weed with a lethal dose of smut--loose kernel smut, that is. Sphacelotheca holci, as it's called...
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Smut resistance and grain yield of pearl millet hybrids near isogenic at the Tr locus.
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...be a useful phenotypic marker to select smut resistance in pearl millet. The trichomeless...pleiotropic effects (Burton et al., 1977). Smut resistance is one potentially valuable...Wilson, 1995). Longterm stability of smut resistance may be affected by genetic variability...
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Making the past for South Africa's future: the prehistory of Field-Marshal Smuts (1920s-1940s).
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...case of Field-Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), (1) for half a century...Commonwealth and the United Nations (FIGURE 1). Smuts' own interests and abilities, coupled...Like many politicians before and since, Smuts did indulge in conventional acts of interference...
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There's smut in abundance in area cornfields
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 7/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; Few sights in a cornfield this time of year evoke the yuck factor as smut does. That's common smut - a disease caused by a fungus. Any seed corn detasseler knows smut well. The young worker walks along doing his or her job when he or she...
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Jan Christian Smuts
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jan Christian Smuts The South African soldier, statesman, and philosopher Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950) was one of the founders of the...League of Nations and of the United Nations. Jan Smuts the second son of Jacobus Abraham Smuts, a...
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Jan Christiaan Smuts
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jan Christiaan Smuts , 1870-1950, South African statesman...state attorney. In the South African War , Smuts commanded (1901-2) Boer guerrilla forces...Louis Botha to achieve this alliance. Smuts was instrumental in the creation (1910...
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smut
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
smut name for an order...caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike...alternation of hosts. Smuts are a most serious...to crops are corn smut, oat smut, bunt...by either of two smut fungi. The fungus...field by the wind. Smuts are classified in...
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Rusts and Smuts
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Rusts and Smuts Rusts and smuts are fungi belonging to the orders Urediniales (rusts) and Ustilaginales (smuts) which are basidiomycete fungi. The...Puccinia graminis tritici) and corn smut (Ustilago myadis). Rust fungi attack...
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Smuts, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Smuts, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan (1870...during the Boer War of 1899–1902, Smuts fought for them during the First World War...Nations . Returning to South Africa in 1919, Smuts became prime minister, a post he retained...
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