Translate ergot from English to German

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Detailed Translations for ergot from English to German

the ergot
Mutterkorn; die Mutterkörner
- Mutterkorn [das ~] noun
- Mutterkörner [die ~] 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 acid¹
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus¹