名詞 ergot:

1. a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
2. 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
   同義詞：Claviceps purpurea

er.got

n.（名詞）
A fungus(Claviceps purpurea) that infects various cereal plants and forms compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many of the grains of the host plant.
麥角菌：一種麥角屬真菌（麥角菌 麥角菌屬） ，它感染谷類(lèi)作物，形成一種緊密的黑色分叉細(xì)絲狀物質(zhì)代替作物的谷粒
The disease caused by such a fungus.
麥角病：由麥角菌引起的病害
The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid.
麥角菌核：干燥的麥角菌菌核，通常是從大麥的種子中提取，用作幾種頗具醫(yī)療價(jià)值的生物堿的原料，也是麥角酸的基本來(lái)源

來(lái)源：
French
法語(yǔ)
from Old French argot [cock`s spur (from its shape)]
源自 古法語(yǔ) argot [公雞的距鐵]

【引伸】
ergot.ic
adj.（形容詞）