RYE ERGOT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rye ergot" is a kind of...):

Claviceps purpurea; ergot (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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