Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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ergot | Yes | No | No | No |
rye ergot | Yes | No | No | No |
ergot (noun) | rye ergot (noun) |
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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 | a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium |
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus |