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Certain Fungus Crossword Clue

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noun

• a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

• destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores

• any fungus of the order Ustilaginales

• an offensive or indecent word or phrase

• creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire

verb

• make obscene

• stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

• become affected with smut

• affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

25%9 Describing a certain fungus shape
noun

• An image or symbol which is club-shaped, that is, larger at the tip than at the base.

adjective

• Larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped.

• Shaped like a nail.

• Key-shaped.

25%6Fungus that affects certain grains
noun

• a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

• a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid

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