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Noun claviceps purpurea has 1 sense
- 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
--1 is a kind of fungus
--1 is a member of Claviceps, genus Claviceps
--1 has particulars: rye ergot
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