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Our farm reporter, Claude Hopper, says we should have a little smut on our site. We were skeptical at first but when he explained that all he was talking about was a little corn smut, we went along with him and put it on. There is nothing wrong with a little cornography sometimes.
Smut, any of more than 700 species of parasitic fungi that attack flowering plants, including economically important cereal grasses. Many smuts feed on maturing plant tissue and then reproduce through a blisterlike sorus that breaks open, releasing black, powdery spores. Among smuts that stunt or destroy grains is the common corn smut, Ustilago maydis, which forms gray-black tumors on or near the ears of corn.
-Microsoft Encarta Online Concise
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