Ergot

nounid 53422·updated May 18, 2026
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a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant

polysemous

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Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Ergots
possessive
Ergot's
pluralpossessive
Ergots'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant
§2
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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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