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

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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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