Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun claviceps_purpurea

1 sense of claviceps purpurea

Sense 1
ergot, Claviceps purpurea -- (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)
       => fungus -- (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)