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Meaning
noun a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
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
originEtymology tree French ergotbor. English ergot Borrowed from French ergot.
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