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Definitions: Ergot |
ErgotNoun1. A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus. 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ergot" was first used: 1683. (references) |
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Health | Cataract due to ergot poisoning caused by eating of rye cereals contaminated by a fungus. (references) |
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Synonym: ErgotSynonym: Claviceps purpurea (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ergot |
| English words defined with "ergot": Calcar, class Pyrenomycetes ♦ Ecbolic, Ecboline, ergonovine, ergotamine, ergotic, Ergotin, Ergotine, Ergotized, Ergotrate Maleate ♦ Pyrenomycetes ♦ rye ergot ♦ Spurred. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ergot": Agmatine ♦ Bromocriptine ♦ cataracta raphanica ♦ Ergot Alkaloids, ergot cataract ♦ Lisuride ♦ Methysergide ♦ Nicergoline. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ergot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (ergot, lug, spur), Serbo-Croatian (ergot). |
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Health | It is manufactured from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains. (references) | |
Chemist Albert Hofmann, working at the Sandoz Corporation pharmaceutical laboratory in Switzerland, first synthesized LSD in 1938. He was conducting research on possible medical applications of various lysergic acid compounds derived from ergot, a fungus that develops on rye grass. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ergot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Ergot" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ergot": Ergot Alkaloids ♦ ergot cataract ♦ rye ergot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ergot | 70 |
ergot madness | 14 |
ergot alkaloid | 10 |
ergot poisoning | 8 |
ergot fungus | 5 |
ergot rye | 4 |
ergot properties | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ergot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مادة طبية تستعمل لوقف النزف الدموي, الأرغوت مرض. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | houba (fungus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ergotisme-katarakt (cataracta raphanica, ergot cataract), meldroejer (ergot of rye), meldroeje (ergot of rye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | moederkoren (ergot of rye), moederkoorn (ergot of rye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | härkäjyvä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ergot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mutterkorn (ergot of rye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σείρικασ, ερυσίβη (blight, mildew, smut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | anyarozs (spur, spurred rye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | segale cornuta (ergot of rye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 麦' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ばっかく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 맥각. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ergotay ergonomia, ferrugem (blight, rouge, rust, rust fungus, rusts, sooty mold, sooty mould, unglazed scale). (various references) corn de secarã. (various references) спорынья. (various references) ergot. (various references) cornezuelo. (various references) mjöldryga (ergot of rye). (various references) โรคของธัญพืชที่เกิ"จากเชื้อรา, สารที่ไ"้จากเชื้อรา ergot ซึ่งสามารถนำไปทำยารักษาโรคไ"้. (various references) çavdar mahmuzu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Claviceps purpurea. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | argot. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "ergot": ergotamine, ergotamines, ergotic, ergotism, ergotisms, ergotized, ergots. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ergot": dihydroergotamine, dihydroergotamines, shergottite, shergottites. (additional references) | |
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"Ergot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agot, Bergot, eargo, egit, egort, egot, egote, egrit, egryt, eregt, Ergay, ergos, ergyt, eriot, erlo, eroge, eroit, erot, erott, erto, erugo, eryou, Eurgah, Eurogug, Evrugo, fergot, Hergott, irgo, nergo, regat, y'got. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ergot" (pronounced er"gut) |
| 3 | -g u t | agate, aggregate, argot, bigot, faggot, frigate, gigot, ingot, legate, maggot, nugget, spigot, surrogate, target. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ergo, goer, gore, grot, ogre, rote, tore. | |
-2 letters: ego, erg, get, gor, got, ore, ort, reg, ret, roe, rot, teg, toe, tog, tor. | |
-3 letters: er, et, go, oe, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ergots, forget, garote, goiter, goitre, gorget, orgeat, tonger. | |
+2 letters: cortege, ergotic, fagoter, foregut, forgets, garoted, garotes, garotte, garrote, genitor, gloater, goiters, goitres, gorgets, goriest, gourmet, goutier, grommet, grouted, grouter, legator, negator, orgeats, outgrew, outrage, portage, protege, rontgen, rootage, storage, toggery, toggler, tongers, tougher, vertigo. | |
+3 letters: abrogate, arrogate, bergamot, burgonet, category, corteges, cottager, derogate, digestor, dragonet, ergotism, escargot, estragon, estrogen, fagoters, footgear, foreguts, frontage, frottage, garotted, garotter, garottes, garroted, garroter, garrotes, garrotte, genitors, geometer, geometry, gerontic, ghostier, gloaters, goatherd, gorgeted, gorsiest, gourmets, grodiest, grommets, grossest, grottier, grottoes, grouters, groutier, legators, mortgage, negators, negatron, nitrogen, outargue, outglare, outraged, outrages, outrange, overgilt, overgirt, portaged, portages, protegee, proteges, ragouted, ravigote, rebought, refought, regolith, regrowth, resought, revoting, roentgen, rontgens, rootages, roughest, shortage, songster, stodgier, storages, strigose, stronger, sturgeon, tetragon, thronged, together, togglers, towering, travelog, trudgeon, tutorage, vertigos, waterdog, waterlog, wrongest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 67 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-. --. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110010 01100111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r g o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 0067 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3984738186 |
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