(亦作wheat bunt)
mass noun
1- a disease of wheat caused by a smut fungus, the spores of which give off a smell of rotten fish（小麦的）腥黑穗病。亦称STINKING SMUT.
1.1
- The fungus is Tilletia, class Teliomyceles.该真菌汉语名亦为小麦腥黑穗病, 冬孢真菌纲。
词源
early 17th cent. (denoting the puffball fungus)： of unknown origin.
with obj.
1
- Baseball (of a batter) gently tap (a pitched ball) without swinging so that it does not roll beyond the infield【棒球】（棒球手）触击, 轻打：
he can bunt the ball and get on base
他轻打就可以上垒了
no obj. Phil bunted and got to first.菲尔轻击了一下然后登上一垒。
1.1
- (of a batter) help (a base-runner) to progress to a further base by tapping a ball in such a way（击球手）轻击球帮助（跑垒员）：
he bunted him to third.
他轻击助他进到三垒。
2
- (of a person or animal) butt with the head or horns（人, 动物）轻轻用头（或角）抵（或顶）：
he bunted her with his head.
他用头轻轻顶她。
1
- Baseball an act or result of tapping a pitched ball in such a way【棒球】触击, 轻打。
2
- an act of flying an aircraft in part of an outside loop（飞行）半外斤斗。
词源
mid 18th cent.: probably related to the noun BUTT1 (the original sense). The usage in aeronautics dates from the 1930s.