Ergot
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Ergots
- possessive
- Ergot's
- pluralpossessive
- Ergots'