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Noun: Claviceps purpurea
  1. A fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
    - ergot

Type of: fungus

Part of: Claviceps, genus Claviceps

Encyclopedia: Claviceps purpurea

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