claviceps : Idioms & Phrases

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claviceps purpurea

  • noun 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
    ergot.
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genus claviceps

  • noun fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses
    Claviceps.
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