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RYE ERGOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rye ergot mean?
• RYE ERGOT (noun)
The noun RYE ERGOT has 1 sense:
1. a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
Familiarity information: RYE ERGOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("rye ergot" is a kind of...):
Claviceps purpurea; ergot (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)
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