English noun: flag smut fungus | |||
1. | flag smut fungus (plant) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | smut, smut fungus | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Urocystis tritici, wheat flag smut | ||
Member meronym | genus Urocystis, Urocystis | ||