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CLAVICEPS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses

Synonyms:

Claviceps; genus Claviceps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Claviceps" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Claviceps"):

Claviceps purpurea; ergot (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)

Holonyms ("Claviceps" is a member of...):

family Hypocreaceae; Hypocreaceae (family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales)

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