Ergot (Noun)
Meaning 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.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 2
A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.