Ergot Synonyms

ûrgət, -gŏt
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Claviceps purpurea

Words Related to Ergot

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. saponin
  2. berberine
  3. alkaloid
  4. colchicine
  5. glycoalkaloids
  6. penicillium

Ergot Sentence Examples

  • Ergot has no external action.

  • The important actions of ergot are on the blood-vessels and the uterus.

  • Ergot is the most powerful known stimulant of the pregnant uterus.

  • Botrytis, Ergot, &c. Now it is clear that if an organism gains access to all parts of a plant, and stimulates all or most of its cells to hypertrophy, we may have the latter behaving abnormallyi.e.

  • Bees carry the spores of Scierotinia as they do the pollen of the bilberries, and flies convey the conidia of ergot from grain to grain.

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