Rye fungus Crossword Clue

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Rye fungus Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. 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
2. a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

FUNGUS (noun)
1. an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia
RYE (noun)
1. hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
2. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

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