dust-brandn.
A disease of corn, in which the ears become filled with a black powder; the fungus which causes this. Also called smut.
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ustilago1578
smit1585
smutting1621
smuttiness1659
smut1665
bragc1682
burnt-eara1722
slain1788
dust-brand1850
stinking rust1861
stinking bunt1889
loose smut1890
stinking smut1891
dust1897
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 393 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI The sooty powder on the flowering parts of corn-plants, called smut, chimney-sweepers, and dust-brand, is formed of the spores of another uredo.
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 268 By farmers it is familiarly called smut or dust-brand.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 435 Dust brand, Ustilago.
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