ergot

/ɜrgət/ noun
5 letters2 syllables6 points in Scrabble®7 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS2
NOUN
1

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.

2

A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus.

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Pig Latinergotway
Starts & ends withE … T
Syllableser · got
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