ERGOT
- a fungus (any of a major group of lower plants) [n ERGOTS] : ERGOTIC [adj]
- a fungus (any of the major group of lower plants) [n -S]
- a. disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, esp. C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body b. the sclerotial body itself
- the dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants: used in the production of ergotamine and ergotoxine
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