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smut

[smuht] noun, verb, smut⋅ted, smut⋅ting.
–noun
1. a particle of soot; sooty matter.
2. a black or dirty mark; smudge.
3. indecent language or publications; obscenity.
4. Plant Pathology.
a. a disease of plants, esp. cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
b. a fungus causing this disease.
–verb (used with object)
5. to soil or smudge.
–verb (used without object)
6. to become affected with smut, as a plant.

Origin:
1580–90; akin to earlier smit (OE smitte), by assoc. with smudge, smutch
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smut   (smŭt)   
n.  
    1. A particle of dirt.

    2. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.

    3. Obscenity in speech or writing.

    4. Pornography.

    5. Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.

    6. A fungus causing such a disease.

    1. Obscenity in speech or writing.

    2. Pornography.

    3. Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.

    4. A fungus causing such a disease.

    1. Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.

    2. A fungus causing such a disease.

v.   smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts

v.   tr.
  1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.

  2. To affect (a plant) with smut.

  3. To free (grain, for example) from smut.

  4. To make obscene.

v.   intr.
  1. To emit smut.

  2. To be or become blackened or smudged.

  3. To become affected with smut, as a plant.


[From Middle English smotten, smutten, to defile.]
smut'ti·ly adv., smut'ti·ness n., smut'ty adj.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: smut
Pronunciation: 'sm&t
Function: noun
: any of various destructive diseases especially of cereal grasses caused by parasitic fungi (orderUstilaginales); also : a fungus causing a smut
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
smut   (smŭt)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. Any of various bacidiomycete fungi that are parasitic on plants and are distinguished by the black, powdery masses of spores that appear as sooty smudges on the affected plant parts. Smuts are parasitic chiefly on cereal grasses like corn and wheat and can cause enormous damage to crops.

  2. Any of the various plant diseases caused by smuts, such as corn smut.


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