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disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores

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  1. n. disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores
  2. n. a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores