Bot. [L.: see UREDO. Cf. F. urédinés.] Species of fungi parasitic upon and injurious to plants, etc. Cf. UREDO.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Blast, That species called uredines, or fire-blasts.
1836. Berkeley, Fungi, in Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. II. 6*. Many entophytal parasites, such as Uredines, &c.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 47/2. The whole three plants were branded with myriads of Uredines.
1858. A. Irvine, Handbk. Brit. Plants, 156. One of these [sub-orders] contains the Uredines (Cornbrands).
1860. Berkeley, Outl. Brit. Fungology, xiii. 87. In the same way the relations of Tremellini to Uredines are clear, if [etc.].
