rye ergot

Definitions of rye ergot
  1. noun
    a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
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    type 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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