单词 | smut |
释义 | smut /smut/, n. , v. , smutted, smutting. n. 1. a particle of soot; sooty matter. 2. a black or dirty mark; smudge. 3. indecent language or publications; obscenity. 4. Plant Pathol. a. a disease of plants, esp. cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales. b. a fungus causing this disease. v.t. 5. to soil or smudge. v.i. 6. to become affected with smut, as a plant. [1580-90; akin to earlier smit (OE smitte), by assoc. with SMUDGE, SMUTCH] |
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