Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
{i} sooty particle; black spot, smudge; obscenity; pornography; plant disease characterized by the development of black powdery spots on the affected part; fungus which causes smut
{f} dirty, stain; become dirty; be affected by a plant disease characterized by the development of black powdery spots
An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"