ergot

1. A fungus (Claviceps purpurea) that infects various cereal plants and forms compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many of the grains of the host plant.

2. The disease caused by such a fungus.

3. The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid.

4. The black or dark purple sclerotium of fungi (genus ) that occurs as a club-shaped body replacing the seed of a grass (as rye).

5. A fungus bearing .

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
ergot	6	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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tore	4
trog	5

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ergot	6