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Claviceps purpurea

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1. n. 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 Source: wordnet

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acid alkaloids black branching cereal compact filaments forming fungus grains important infects masses medicinally plant plants replace source various

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Claviceps clavichord clavichords Clavicipitaceae clavicle

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