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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% | 6 | Fungus 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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