DICTIONARY ENTRY
2 SYLLABLES
ergot
/'ɜrgət/ · ɜrgət
Ergot has 2 syllables: er · got.
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got
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noun. 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.
noun. A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus.
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