Crossword clues for ergot
ergot
- Fungal disease of cereals
- Cereal grass fungus
- Rye blight
- Hallucinogenic fungus
- Rye grass disease
- Problem for grain growers
- Killer of grain
- Grain woe
- Grain affliction
- Fungus that can affect wheat crops
- Fungus that affects rye
- Fungous growth on cereals
- Fungal grain disease
- Disease of cereal grasses
- Cereal grass parasite
- Cereal grass disease
- Bane of rye crops
- Source of lysergic acid
- Ryegrass fungus
- Ryegrass disease
- Rye grass malady
- Roget (anag) — plant disease
- It eats cereal
- Grain farmer's headache
- Fungus used to make LSD
- Fungus that attacks grains
- Fungus of grain
- Fungus growth on cereal grains
- Fungal rye disease
- Disease of rye
- Crop-menacing fungus
- Concern for wheat farmers
- Cereal-eating fungi
- Cereal grain killer
- Cereal eater?
- Grass fungus
- Crop fungus
- Crop problem
- Grain disease
- Cereal killer?
- Problem for a grain farmer
- Headache for a grain farmer
- Grain bane
- Plant problem
- Corn problem
- Rye malady
- Hardly wandering
- Plant fungus
- Crop hazard
- Field fungus
- Bane of cereal grain
- 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 that affects cereal
- Fungus disease of rye
- This causes rye to go awry
- Cereal blight
- Rye disease
- Bane of grain
- Cereal disease
- Rye fungus
- Grain fungus
- Plant disease
- Fungus used in pharmaceutics
- Cereal plant disease
- Cereal fungus
- Cereal woe
- Disease of cereals
- Grass disease
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hippocampus \Hip`po*cam"pus\, n. [L., the sea horse, Gr. ? a hippocampus (in senses 1 and 2); "i`ppos horse + ? to bend.]
(Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish ( Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
--Fairholt.-
(Zo["o]l.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail. The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the eggs till hatched.
(Zo["o]l.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fungal disease of rye and other grasses, 1680s, from French ergot "ergot," also "a spur, the extremity of a dead branch," from Old French argot "cock's spur" (12c.), which is of unknown origin. The blight so called from the shape the fungus forms on the diseased grain. Related: Ergotic. An alkaloid from the fungus, ergotamine (1921) is used to treat migraines.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any fungus in the genus ''Claviceps'' which are parasitic on grasses. 2 The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus ''Claviceps'', appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi.
WordNet
n. a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
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 [syn: Claviceps purpurea]
Wikipedia
Ergot (pron. ) or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps.
The most prominent member of this group is Claviceps purpurea ("rye ergot fungus"). This fungus grows on rye and related plants, and produces alkaloids that can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals who consume grains contaminated with its fruiting structure (called ergot sclerotium).
Claviceps includes about 50 known species, mostly in the tropical regions. Economically significant species include C. purpurea (parasitic on grasses and cereals), C. fusiformis (on pearl millet, buffel grass), C. paspali (on dallis grass), C. africana (on sorghum), and "C. Lutea'' (on paspalum). C. purpurea'' most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley. It affects oats only rarely.
C. purpurea has at least three races or varieties, which differ in their host specificity:
- G1 — land grasses of open meadows and fields;
- G2 — grasses from moist, forest, and mountain habitats;
- G3 (C. purpurea var. spartinae) — salt marsh grasses (Spartina, Distichlis).
The ergot is a small callosity on the underside of the fetlock of a horse or other equine. Some equines have them on all four fetlocks; others have few or no detectable ergots. In horses, the ergot varies from very small to the size of a pea or bean, larger ergots occurring in horses with " feather" – long hairs on the lower legs. In some other equines, the ergot can be as much as in diameter.
Ergot comes from the French word for rooster's spur.
Usage examples of "ergot".
The fool Klysterman was in charge of the carbon dioxide unit that cornered and destroyed the ergot fungus beside the reactor pool.
A technician, in feeding the augmented wheat rust this morning, discovered unwittingly that the ergot has, as predicted, now developed the capacity to generate effective lysergic acid derivatives.
God knows what reality is for Klysterman now, wrapped up in lysergic ergot like a lungfish in mud.
There are other plants that can help her lose the baby early if she needs to, ergot is only one.
She put some hot stones in a bowl of water to make an infusion of ergot for Ayla.
Perhaps it would help Talut, she thought, though from the sound of his complaints she wondered if the preparation of ergot she made for particularly bad headaches might be better.
Ergot, in teaspoonful doses of the fluid extract, hamamelis, and gallic acid, all are valuable for this purpose.
There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.
And bright and gay as Amsel made him, Potrimpos, the forever laughing youth with the ear of wheat between his teeth, brought in only a single gulden, although Potrimpos protects summer and winter seed against corn cockle, charlock and wild mustard, against couchgrass, vetches, spurry, and ergot.
Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.
And bright and gay as Amsel made him, Potrimpos, the forever laughing youth with the ear of wheat between his teeth, brought in only a single gulden, although Potrimpos protects summer and winter seed against corn cockle, charlock and wild mustard, against couchgrass, vetches, spurry, and ergot.
The suggested culprit was ergot, which comes from a mold called Claviceps purpurea.
Well, it would have been something like that because ergot contains lysergic acid amide, which is the prime ingredient of LSD.
Ergot was a black blight that grew on rye and women used it to abort their young.
Could you honestIy say for 100 percent certain that this ergot is what made the general fly off that building, or the German fella dive into that bread dough?