NOMBRE | plant | cornezuelo, claviceps purpurea | a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant |
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Sentido | 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. | |
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Sinónimo | claviceps purpurea | |
Miembro de | claviceps, genus claviceps | fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses |
Específico | cornezuelo del centeno | A sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium |
General | fungi, fungus, hongo, hongos | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter |
Inglés | ergot, Claviceps purpurea | |
Catalán | claviceps purpurea |
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