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ergot

er·got

UK/ˈəːɡət/ US/ˈəːɡɒt/ uncommon

noun

1.

a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

2.

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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Borrowed from French ergot.

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