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English noun: ergot | |||
| 1. | ergot (state) a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | plant disease | ||
| 2. | ergot (plant) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | Claviceps purpurea | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fungus | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | rye ergot | ||
| Member meronym | Claviceps, genus Claviceps | ||
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