plant disease vs ergot

ergot vs plant disease

plant disease and ergot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plant disease	Yes	No	No	No
ergot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ergot is a hyponym of plant disease; that is, ergot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant disease:

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
ergot: a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, leaf disease, rust, blackheart, black knot, black rot, black spot, bottom rot, brown rot, gummosis, canker, cotton ball, crown gall, crown wart, damping off, dieback, dry rot, heartrot, mosaic, rhizoctinia disease, pink disease, potato wart, root rot, scorch, sweet-potato ring rot, sclerotium disease, sclerotium rot, Dutch elm disease, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	ergot (noun)
a disease that affects plants	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 plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

Difference between plant disease and ergot

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