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Words with a similar base: ergot

'ergot'

[ergot.n.01] as in: a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus

'ergot'

[ergot.n.02] as in: 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

Origins

					ergot (English)
└── ergot (French)
    └── argot (Old French (842-ca. 1400))