noun. Any of several fungi of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, that infect various cereal plants and form compact black masses of branching filaments that replace the grains of the host plant. Humans and livestock can be poisoned by ingesting ergot-infected grains.

noun. The plant disease caused by such a fungus.

noun. The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid.

To infer; arrive at.

To draw conclusions.

noun. In farriery, a stub, like a piece of soft horn, of about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern-joint, and commonly hidden under the tuft of the fetlock.

noun. A morbid growth arising from a diseased condition of the ovary of various grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps.

noun. In anatomy, the calcar. spur, or hippocampus minor of the brain.

noun. 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.

noun. The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

noun. A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

noun. See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).

noun. Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses.

noun. The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi.

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

noun. a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

"He identified acetylcholine as a constituent of certain ergot extracts, and an analysis of its action served as a basis for later researches, extending the application of Loewi's discoveries, which have been recognized in the joint award of the"

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