ustilago

See also: Ustilago

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

ustilago (plural ustilagos or ustilagoes)

1. Any of the genus Ustilago of smut fungi parasitic on grasses.
   • 1859, The Farmer's Magazine, page 524:

     It was generally believed, before the experiments made by M. Kuhn, but without any foundation, and upon simple conjecture, that the seminules or spores of the ustilagoes and uredoes of the cereals penetrate by the radicles of the plant in order to arrive, creeping by degrees, to the leaves and seeds of those vegetables.

See also

• corn smut
• huitlacoche

Latin

Etymology

From ustus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /us.tiˈlaː.ɡoː/, [ʊs̠t̪ɪˈɫ̪äːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /us.tiˈla.ɡo/, [ust̪iˈläːɡo]

Noun

ustilāgō f (genitive ustilāginis); third declension

1. A kind of wild thistle

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ustilāgō	ustilāginēs
genitive	ustilāginis	ustilāginum
dative	ustilāginī	ustilāginibus
accusative	ustilāginem	ustilāginēs
ablative	ustilāgine	ustilāginibus
vocative	ustilāgō	ustilāginēs

References

• “ustilago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ustilago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.