green smut

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfalse smut

   Broadersmut

Questions about green smut

What does green smut mean?

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

What is another word for green smut?

Close synonyms include false 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 green smut a common word?

green 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.