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Noun: ergot  ur-gut
  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
    - Claviceps purpurea
     
  2. A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

Derived forms: ergots

Type of: fungus, plant disease

Part of: Claviceps, genus Claviceps

Encyclopedia: Ergot

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