stinking smut

Questions about stinking smut

What does stinking smut mean?

stinking smut means "disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for stinking smut?

Close synonyms include bunt, bunt, Tilletia foetida. 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 stinking smut a common word?

stinking smut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.