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TILLETIA CARIES

Dictionary entry overview: What does Tilletia caries mean?

• TILLETIA CARIES (noun)
The noun TILLETIA CARIES has 1 sense:

1. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores

Familiarity information: TILLETIA CARIES used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TILLETIA CARIES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Tilletia caries; bunt

Hypernyms ("Tilletia caries" is a kind of...):

smut; smut fungus (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)

Holonyms ("Tilletia caries" is a member of...):

genus Tilletia; Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)

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