ergot, n.
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(ergots)
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
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Claviceps purpurea ergot
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derivationally related form
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
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ergot
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