Definitions for ergots

ergots er·got

Spelling: [ur-guh t, -got]
IPA: /ˈɜr gət, -gɒt/

Ergots is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in ergots (egorst).

Definitions for ergots

noun

  1. Plant Pathology. a disease of rye and other cereal grasses, caused by a fungus of the genus Claviceps, especially C. purpurea, which replaces the affected grain with a long, hard, blackish sclerotial body. the sclerotial body itself.
  2. Pharmacology. the dried sclerotium of C. purpurea, developed on rye plants: used in the production of ergotamine and ergotoxine.

Origin of ergots

1675-85; French: literally, a rooster's spur; Old French argos, argoz, argot spur(s)

Examples for ergots

ergot and turpentine are administered in case of hemorrhage—the former best, perhaps, hypodermatically.

A small quantity of ether is dropped on the ergot contained in a bottle, and the latter closed with a well-fitting stopper.

The ergot is placed in a wide-mouth stoppered bottle, and covered with a thick layer of the powdered charcoal.

All the poisonous symptoms of ergot are induced from continuously partaking of bread made with ergotised flour.

According to M. Bonjean, this preparation possesses all the hmostatic without any of the poisonous qualities of ergot.

To prevent this the ergot should be well dried, and then placed in bottles or tin canisters, and closely preserved from the air.

There was ergot in it, cleverly concealed by the natural smell and taste of the sauce.

M. Tancret states that he has succeeded in obtaining an alkaloid from ergot of rye, which he names ergotinine.

The history of ergot of Rye is too fresh in the memory of most people to require more than an allusion here.

A peculiar variety of sugar, extracted by alcohol from ergot of rye.

Word Value for ergots
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6

Words with friends

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