ergot
IPA: ˈɝgʌt
noun
- Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses.
- The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi.
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Examples of "ergot" in Sentences
- Ergot requires moisture to grow.
- Pennyroyal and ergot are both very tricky.
- The article Ergot needs a cleanup, desparately.
- Mold-induced food poisoning called ergot or ergotism.
- Ergot poisoning is one of the explanations of bewitchment.
- Ergocristine is an ergopeptine and one of the ergot alkaloids.
- When rye is left to sit it can become infected with the fungus ergot.
- Stevenson was being treated with the fungus ergot at a local hospital.
- Claviceps zizaniae is a plant pathogen that causes ergot in wild rice.
- It is also known as ergotoxicosis, ergot poisoning and Saint Anthony's Fire.
- A different crop allows the weeds to be eliminated, breaking the ergot cycle.
- Yes, corn ergot is somewhat rare, but you’ve probably seen it at least once in your life.
- The most important of these so-called sympathicolytic substances are the alkaloids which are found in ergot.
- An allegation arose at some point that Carroll used the fungus ergot, which is what LSD was eventually derived from.
- At the time, the outbreak was blamed on bread from a bakery called the Roch Briand that had supposedly become contaminated with a psychedelic fungus called ergot, which occurs naturally on rye bread.
- The source of the affliction was a parasite on rye crops, a fungus known as ergot, which contains a series of compounds that among other characteristics causes the blood vessels to contract—hence the gangrene in the extremities.
- He identified acetylcholine as a constituent of certain ergot extracts, and an analysis of its action served as a basis for later researches, extending the application of Loewi's discoveries, which have been recognized in the joint award of the
- Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot!
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