flag-smut

flag smut

noun Plant Pathology.
a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
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flag smut

noun
smut affecting leaves and stems of cereals and other grasses 
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