CLAVICEPS PURPUREA as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • ergot (what does ergot mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Claviceps purpurea is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • fungus (what does fungus mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • rye ergot (what does rye ergot mean?)