Definition of ergot

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Definition of ergot

  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. claviceps purpurea
  • a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus (noun)

See definition of ergot in Merriam Webster