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1. (n.) ergot
a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, esp. C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.
2. ergot
the sclerotial body itself.
3. ergot
the dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants, from which various medicinal alkaloids are derived.
Etymology: (1675–85; < F: lit., a rooster's spur)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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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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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) ergot
a diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea
2. (noun) ergot
the mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding
3. (noun) ergot
a stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint
4. (noun) ergot
see 2d Calcar, 3 (b)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. ergot
a diseased state of grasses, &c., but a disease chiefly attacking rye, produced by a fungus developing on the seeds; the drug "ergot of rye" is obtained from a species of this fungus.
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