ergot
pronunciation
How to pronounce ergot in British English:
UK ['ɜ:gət]
How to pronounce ergot in American English:
US ['ɜgət]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- ergot (n.)
- fungal disease of rye and other grasses, 1680s, from French ergot "ergot," also "a spur, the extremity of a dead branch," from Old French argot "cock's spur" (12c.), which is of unknown origin. The blight so called from the shape the fungus forms on the diseased grain. Related: Ergotic. An alkaloid from the fungus, ergotamine (1921) is used to treat migraines.
Example
- 1. I managed them with ergot for a long time , and it was inexpensive and effective .
- 2. A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus .
- 3. Ergot fungus belonging to orders , ergot fungus branch , cordyceps .
- 4. Cordyceps is not the winter as " worms " summer as " grass " and its essence is a fungus - cordyceps fungus ergot fungus division .