Ergot Host

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	noun • the seed of the cereal grass • hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement • whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
	36%	5		Afflicts the ovaries of the host plant
	noun • 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
	23%	15		Family of fungi that includes several species of ergot
	noun • any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycetes

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New York Times21 Jul 1983	Across 40
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