urocystis cepulae

1. 1.

   smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings

   Synonymsonion smut

   Broadersmut

Questions about urocystis cepulae

What does urocystis cepulae mean?

urocystis cepulae means "smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings".

What is another word for urocystis cepulae?

Close synonyms include onion 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 urocystis cepulae a common word?

urocystis cepulae 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.