Answer: ergots

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ERGOTSCereal fungi
ERGOTSGrain fungi
ERGOTSDrugs made from fungous growths on cereals.
ERGOTSFungi found in rye and wild grasses.
ERGOTSCereal grass fungi
ERGOTSPlant fungus diseases
ERGOTSBanes of grains
ERGOTSCereal plant diseases
ERGOTSDiseases of rye
ergotsERGOT, a fungus (any of the major group of lower plants)
ergotsthe dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants: used in the production of ergotamine and ergotoxine
ergotsthe black or dark purple sclerotium of fungi (genus Claviceps) that occurs as a club-shaped body replacing the seed of a grass (as rye)
ergotsa. disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, esp. C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body b. the sclerotial body itself
ergotsdisease of rye and other cereals caused by an ergot fungus
ergotsfungus bearing ergots