HEAD SMUT


Meaning of HEAD SMUT in English

Plant Pathol.

a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .