Ergot is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ERGOT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fungal disease of grasses
• a fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black elongated fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
• the fruiting bodies of the ergot fungus, used as a source of certain medicinal alkaloids, especially for inducing uterine contractions or controlling post-partum bleeding.
• fungal disease of cereal
• A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
• The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
• A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
• See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
• a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
• 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
• a small horny protuberance on the back of each of a horse's fetlocks.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a fungus

Words related to ERGOT

ergotic10 ergots7

Words that contain ERGOT

ergots7 ergotic10 overgot11 ergotise9 ergotism11 ergotize18 ergotised11 ergotises10 ergotisms12 ergotized20 ergotizes19 ergotamine13 ergotising12 ergotizing21 ergotamines14 shergottite15 shergottites16 dihydroergotami26 dihydroergotamine28 dihydroergotamines29

How to use ERGOT in a sentence

• Mould and ergot were prevalent among plants, and flukes producing liver-rot among live stock, especially sheep.
• After the fetlock has been shorn of hair and the ergot trimmed, the skin is thoroughly cleansed and allowed to dry.
• Another will dose him with phosphorus, quinine, or ergot.
• The patient should now be given one teaspoonful of the fluid extract of ergot, which should be repeated in an hour.

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