| 单词 | ergot |
| 释义 | ergot /err"geuht, -got/, n. 1. Plant Pathol. a. a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, esp. C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body. b. the sclerotial body itself. 2. Pharm. the dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants: used in the production of ergotamine and ergotoxine. [1675-85; < F: lit., a rooster's spur; OF argos, argoz, argot spur(s)] |
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