English noun: Claviceps purpurea | |||
1. | Claviceps purpurea (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 | ergot | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fungus | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | rye ergot | ||
Member meronym | Claviceps, genus Claviceps | ||