The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheat rust \Wheat rust\ A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.
WordNet
n. rust fungus that attacks wheat [syn: Puccinia graminis]
Usage examples of "wheat rust".
You'll never hear of this when the Parliamentary Estimates for Mordon Health Centre are being passed, but our scientists in Mordon have either discovered or refined to the purest and most deadly forms the germs for causing plague, typhus, smallpox, rabbit and urdulant fever in man: hog cholera, fowl pest, Newcastle disease, rinderpest, foot-and-mouth, glanders and anthrax in livestock: and blights like the Japanese beetle, European corn borer, Mediterranean fruit fly, boll-weevil, citrus cancer, wheat rust and heaven knows what else in plants.
And in the second place, when you catch tobacco mosaic or wheat rust, let me know.
Candlemas spent months fighting a blight, a wheat rust, that spread through grain crops.
Otto introduced cards for locusts, arson fires, wheat rust and black beetles.
And our wheat gets Wheat Rust due to the winter fogs, and our Aleut hunters have nothing much to do because the sea otters they were brought here to hunt had unfortunately been hunted nearly to extinction by the time this settlement was founded.