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Definitions for Ergot

[1] Plant Pathology . a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body. the sclerotial body itself.
[2] Pharmacology . the dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants: used in the production of ergotamine and ergotoxine.
[3] a disease of cereals and other grasses caused by ascomycete fungi of the genus Claviceps, esp C. purpurea, in which the seeds or grain of the plants are replaced by the spore-containing bodies (sclerotia) of the fungus
[4] any fungus causing this disease
[5] the dried sclerotia of C. purpurea, used as the source of certain alkaloids used to treat haemorrhage, facilitate uterine contraction in childbirth, etc

Words nearby Ergot

ergonomic, ergonomics, ergonovine, ergophobia, ergosterol, ergot, ergotamine, ergotin, ergotism, ergotoxine, ergotrate

Origin of Ergot

1675–85; < French: literally, a rooster's spur; Old French argos, argoz, argot spur(s)

Word origin for Ergot

C17: from French: spur (of a cock), of unknown origin