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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


Synonymsergot


Broader (hypernym)fungus


Narrower (hyponym)rye ergot


Member meronymClaviceps, genus Claviceps









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