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
   - Claviceps purpurea

Derived forms: ergots

See also: ergotic

Type of: fungus, plant disease

Part of: Claviceps, genus Claviceps

Encyclopedia: Ergot

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