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    GENUS CLAVICEPS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grassesplay

    Synonyms:

    Claviceps; genus Claviceps

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

    Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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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