ergot English

Meaning ergot meaning

What does ergot mean?

ergot

— noun a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

— noun 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 synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ergot?

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smut

Claviceps purpurea

spur

rye smut

mildew

fungus

blight