genus claviceps

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1. fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus genus,
definition	:	includes lichen genera (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	claviceps purpurea, ergot,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family hypocreaceae, hypocreaceae,
definition	:	family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales (noun.plant)