1. a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass; [syn: boil smut, Ustilago maydis]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
boil smut
n 1: a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white
swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass [syn:
boil smut, Ustilago maydis]