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Ergot   /ˈərgət/   Listen
Ergot

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.  Synonym: Claviceps purpurea.



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"Ergot" Quotes from Famous Books



... our stomachs. In the army sugar was doled out by pinches, and from the tables of most citizens it was banished altogether. There were those who solaced themselves with rye coffee and sorghum molasses regardless of ergot and acid, but nobler souls would not be untrue to their gastronomic ideal. Necessity is one thing, mock luxury another. If there had been honey enough, we should have been on the antique basis; for honey was the sugar of antiquity, ...
— The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 • Basil L. Gildersleeve


Words linked to "Ergot" :   Claviceps purpurea, genus Claviceps, rye ergot, ergotic, plant disease, fungus, Claviceps


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