false smut

1. 1.

   disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia

   Synonymsgreen smut

   Broadersmut

Questions about false smut

What does false smut mean?

false smut means "disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia".

What is another word for false smut?

Close synonyms include green smut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is false smut a common word?

false smut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.