flax rust fungus

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   fungus causing flax rust

   Synonymsflax rustMelampsora lini

   Broaderrust

   Part ofMelampsora

Questions about flax rust fungus

What does flax rust fungus mean?

flax rust fungus means "fungus causing flax rust".

What is another word for flax rust fungus?

Close synonyms include flax rust, Melampsora lini. 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 flax rust fungus a common word?

flax rust fungus 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.