ERGOTS
- ERGOT, a fungus (any of a major group of lower plants) [n]
- ERGOT, a fungus (any of the major group of lower plants) [n]
- 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
- the black or dark purple sclerotium of fungi (genus Claviceps) that occurs as a club-shaped body replacing the seed of a grass (as rye)
- fungus bearing ergots
- disease of rye and other cereals caused by an ergot fungus
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