ergot has definitions from the fields of botany,medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

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plant_disease

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[ noun ] (botany) 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

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fungus rye_ergot Claviceps

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