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ergot   (TTS Sound)

The noun ergot has 2 senses

• ergot -- (a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus)


• ergot, Claviceps purpurea -- (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)