ustilago maydis

English Thesaurus

1. a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	corn smut, cornsmut,
definition	:	a smut fungus attacking Indian corn (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus ustilago, ustilago,
definition	:	type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts (noun.plant)