ergot

ergot is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
2. noun. The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
3. noun. A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
4. noun. See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
5. 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
6. noun. a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ergot:

etrog, goter, grote, roget, rotge

Common word forms

ergots, ergoted, ergotize

Words from these letters

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