ergot
1. [ noun ] (medicine) a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
Related terms: plant_disease
2. [ 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
Synonyms: Claviceps_purpurea
Related terms: fungus rye_ergot Claviceps
Similar spelling:   ergotic
  ergotism
  erst
  eruct
  erect
  ersatz
  eristic
  ergodic
  erectly