tilletia caries

English Thesaurus

1. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	smut, smut fungus,
definition	:	any fungus of the order Ustilaginales (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus tilletia, tilletia,
definition	:	a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae (noun.plant)