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

2. (noun) ergot, Claviceps purpurea
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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