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claviceps purpurea is a noun meaning "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". It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for claviceps purpurea come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.