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claviceps purpurea meaning and definition
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Definition of Claviceps purpurea (noun)
- 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
- synonyms: ergot
Source: Princeton University Wordnet