ustilago

See also: Ustilago

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʌstɪˈleɪɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌʌstɪˈleɪɡoʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ

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

References

• Ustilago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ustilago on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Ustilago on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

From ustus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ʊs.tɪˈɫaː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [us.tiˈlaː.ɡo]

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.