Claviceps purpurea
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Sense 1 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
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Parts & wholes
- Claviceps member holonym
Related & opposite
- ergotic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ergotic |
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Claviceps |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fungus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rye ergot |