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Parasitical Fungus Crossword Clue

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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

42%7Parasitical behavior
noun

• someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

verb

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

42%15 The characteristic or state of being parasitical
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