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smut
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a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
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Other meanings
2. noun
destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
3. noun
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
4. noun
an offensive or indecent word or phrase
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