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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of parasitic fungi of the class Uredineæ; the rusts.
- noun A plant of this genus.
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- noun type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants
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