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ergot, Claviceps purpurea

Noun

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

English: ergot, Claviceps purpurea

A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

English: ergot

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claviceps purpurea

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