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Definition of Onion smut
1. Noun. Smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onion Smut
Literary usage of Onion 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)
"Entyloma Ranunculi (Bon.) Schrot.1 is found upon various species of Ranunculaceae.
The life history of this form has been carefully studied. X. onion smut ..."
2. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"CHAPTER XL onion smut. ... IN 1879 a disease of onions appeared in France, known
as the "American onion smut," Urocystis ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"(No abstract furnished.) 2. ' Experiments with Lime and Solutions of Formaldehyde
in the Prevention of onion smut ' : AD SELBT. onion smut, Urocystis ..."
4. Successful Farming; a Ready Reference on All Phases of Agriculture for by Frank Duane Gardner (1916)
"If necessary to spray late in the season, the last treatment should be with
ammoniacal copper carbonate solution. ONION Smut ..."
5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1909)
"onion smut AND CLUB-ROOT OF CABBAGE. onion smut is distinctively prevalent about
Chillicothe in certain of the fields devoted to growing onion sets. ..."
6. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"Spraying with standard Bordeaux mixture to which 2 ounces of resin whale-oil soap
have been added will also be found a good preventive. onion smut ..."
7. Annual Report: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Oregon State by Oregon State Horticultural Society (1922)
"Considerable demonstration work has been done on the onion smut but not a great
deal on the onion maggot. They are nearly the same but the smut comes first, ..."
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