claviceps purpurea

Questions about claviceps purpurea

What is another word for claviceps purpurea?

It depends which claviceps purpurea you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are ergot. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of claviceps purpurea?

WordNet records no antonym for claviceps purpurea. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for claviceps purpurea come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of claviceps purpurea

• Full entry for claviceps purpureaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for claviceps purpureaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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