ergot

/ur-guht, -got/US // ˈɜr gət, -gɒt //UK // (ˈɜːɡət, -ɡɒt) //

麦角,麦角石,麦芽糖,麦草

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Plant Pathology. a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body.the sclerotial body itself.
- : Pharmacology. the dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants: used in the production of ergotamine and ergotoxine.

Another important member of this group is the tiny parasite found on rye and other grains, which gives us the drug ergot.
Occasionally rye flour is made from rye upon which ergot has developed.
The history of Ergot of Rye is too fresh in the memory of most people to require more than an allusion here.
When gathered the ergot is in large irregular lumps, and should be so kept.
Ergot of Rye is a stimulant to the muscular nerves of the Uterus of the female, but to no other nerves in any marked degree.