claviceps purpurea
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1. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fungus, |
| definition | : | an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | rye ergot, |
| definition | : | a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium (noun.plant) |
| derivation | : | ergotic, |
| definition | : | relating to or produced by ergot (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | ergotic, |
| definition | : | relating to or produced by ergot (adj.pert) |
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