claviceps

Noun
  1. Fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses (synset 112986223)
    is a type of: fungus genus - includes lichen genera
    member holonym: claviceps purpurea, ergot - 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
    belongs to: family hypocreaceae, hypocreaceae - family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales
    same as: genus claviceps

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