genus urocystis

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1. a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus genus,
definition	:	includes lichen genera (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	flag smut fungus,
definition	:	a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family tilletiaceae, tilletiaceae,
definition	:	a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster (noun.plant)