ergot

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ergot (enc)

Noun	1.	ergot - a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus plant disease - a disease that affects plants
	2.	ergot - 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 Claviceps, genus Claviceps - fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses rye ergot - a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores

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