Covered Smut (Noun)
Meaning
A smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The infected grain head showed symptoms of a covered smut fungus, which the farmer had been trying to control for months.
- In a study of various smut diseases, the covered smut of wheat was found to cause the most damage to the crop yield.
- Covered smut, a disease caused by various fungi, can be identified by the dark spore masses that are embedded in the grain tissues.
- The covered smut spores spread rapidly through the field, infecting all the susceptible grain plants in its path.
- A new method of controlling covered smut infection in grains was proposed by researchers at the agricultural conference.