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ERGOTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ergotic mean? 

ERGOTIC (adjective)
  The adjective ERGOTIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or produced by ergotplay

  Familiarity information: ERGOTIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ERGOTIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or produced by ergot

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

ergot (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)

Derivation:

ergot (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)


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