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
How To Use Claviceps purpurea In A Sentence
- Claviceps purpurea grows mainly on rye, wheat, triticale, and barley.
- Rye suffers from a peculiar disease called ergot, caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea.
