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Definition of Loose smut
1. Noun. Disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores.
2. Noun. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loose Smut
Literary usage of Loose smut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"The loose smut of oats is one of the most common and destructive of the smut ...
The general appearance of the loose smut is striking, and usually as shown ..."
2. The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat by Peter Tracy Dondlinger (1908)
"loose smut of Wheat differs from the stinking smut in these respects: At germination
its spores develop a chain of cells instead of an undivided tube; ..."
3. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"loose smut.—This fungus belongs to the same genus as the smut so commonly ...
The loss from loose smut is rarely large, although as high as eight per cent ..."
4. Annales Mycologici (1906)
"It was also pointed out that the symbiotic condition in Lolium could have been
derived from a smut parasitism of the loose smut of oats type through a ..."
5. Annual Report by Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (1910)
"Description:—The first appearance of loose smut to the farmer is at the tim» ...
The life history of loose smut may briefly be stated as follows: As soon as ..."
6. The Small Grains by Mark Alfred Carleton (1920)
"It is difficult to distinguish it by casual observation from the naked or loose
smut, though, as a rule, the smut masses or balls arc inclosed by the outer ..."
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