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

2 senses of ergot

Sense 1
ergot -- (a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus)
       => plant disease -- (a disease that affects plants)

Sense 2
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)