plant disease vs smut

smut vs plant disease

plant disease and smut both are nouns.

plant disease is not a verb while smut is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plant disease	Yes	No	No	No
smut	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, smut is a hyponym of plant disease; that is, smut is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant disease:

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
smut: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores

Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, leaf disease, rust, blackheart, black knot, black rot, black spot, bottom rot, brown rot, gummosis, canker, cotton ball, crown gall, crown wart, damping off, dieback, dry rot, heartrot, mosaic, rhizoctinia disease, pink disease, potato wart, root rot, scorch, sweet-potato ring rot, sclerotium disease, sclerotium rot, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	smut (noun)
a disease that affects plants	creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
	an offensive or indecent word or phrase
	any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
	destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
	a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

plant disease (verb)	smut (verb)
	affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
	stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
	become affected with smut
	make obscene

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