claviceps purpurea

Noun claviceps purpurea has 1 sense

• claviceps purpurea(n = noun.plant) ergot - 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;
is a member of claviceps, genus claviceps
has particulars: rye ergot
is a kind of fungus