Mexican Spanish Meaning of ergot

Cornezuelo de centeno

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Definitions and Meaning of ergot in English

Wordnet

ergot (n)

a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

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

Webster

ergot (n.)

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.

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.

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

See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).

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Cornezuelo de centeno

a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus, a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many gr

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ergosterol => Ergosterol, ergonovine => Ergonovina, ergonomics => Ergonomía, ergonomic => ergonómico, ergon => Ergon,