Definition of Tilletia

1. Noun. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Tilletia
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Tilletiaceae, Tilletiaceae
Member holonyms: Bunt, Tilletia Caries, Bunt, Stinking Smut, Tilletia Foetida

Definition of Tilletia

1. Noun. a genus of smut fungi in the Tilletiaceae family ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tilletia

Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Tikrit
Tilapia nilotica
Tilda
Tilden
Tilia
Tilia americana
Tilia cordata
Tilia heterophylla
Tilia japonica
Tilia tomentosa
Tiliaceae
Tiliomycetes
Tillandsia usneoides
Tillaux
Tilletia (current term)
Tilletia caries
Tilletia foetida
Tilletiaceae
Tillich
Tillie
Tilly
Tim.
Tim Leary
Timalia
Timaliidae
Timbit
Timbits
Timbuktoo
Timbuktu

Literary usage of Tilletia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"Tilletia horrida Tak. This fungus occurs in the ovaries of the cultivated ... Tilletia corona Scrib. This species occurs upon plants related to the rice, ..."

2. A Handbook of Rice Seedborne Fungi by T. W. Mew, P. Gonzales (2002)
"Tilletia horrida Tak. ... Further studies made placed it in the genus Tilletia; it is now known as Tilletia ..."

3. A Handbook of Rice Seedborne Fungi by T. W. Mew, P. Gonzales (2002)
"Tilletia horrida Tak. ... Further studies made placed it in the genus Tilletia; it is now known as Tilletia ..."

4. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"Tilletia Caries, Tul. THE disease of wheat generally known as bunt is ... The scientific name of the fungus which causes bunt in wheat is Tilletia Caries, ..."

5. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops: Chiefly Such as are Caused by Fungi by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"Tilletia Caries, Tul. THE disease of wheat generally known as bunt is ... The scientific name of the fungus which causes bunt in wheat is Tilletia Caries, ..."

6. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1907)
"Tilletia, Tul.—Spores isolated, formed by a swelling of the tips of fertile hyphae, ... Tilletia tritici, Winter, Krypt.-Flora, ip no (1884). ..."

7. A Compendium of Food-microscopy with Sections on Drugs, Water, and Tobacco by Edwy Godwin Clayton, Arthur Hill Hassall (1909)
"Bunt, Smut Bolls.1 Smut Balls, Stinking Smut, or Pepper Brand (Tilletia tritici — T. caries).—A fungus met with only in wheat, and easily to be ..."

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