smut fungus

Questions about smut fungus

What does smut fungus mean?

smut fungus means "any fungus of the order Ustilaginales".

What is another word for smut fungus?

Close synonyms include 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 smut fungus a common word?

smut 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.