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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 ergot
Familiarity information: ERGOTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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