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Word | Ergot |
Japanese Meaning | 麦角 |
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 / a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus / A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea. / a fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black, elongated, fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism., | |
Usage | ⇒ One of the first recorded attacks was in the seventh century BC when the Assyrians used a fungal disease called ergot to poison water supplies. |
Synonyms | fungus, Claviceps purpurea, belladonna, drug, hemlock, cereal grass fungus, cereal killer, cockle, crease, plant disease, plant fungus, rust, rye ergot, rye grass disease, |
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