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The plant disease caused by ergot.

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  • [Noun]
  • The plant disease caused by ergot.
  • The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the fungus Claviceps purpurea which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs, consisting of convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
  • The use of ergot-infested grain to poison animals.

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