Audio English.net » Dictionary » E » Eratosthenes ... Erigeron Speciosus

ERGOTIC

Dictionary entry overview: What does ergotic mean?

• ERGOTIC (adjective)
The adjective ERGOTIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or produced by ergot

Familiarity information: ERGOTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ERGOTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

ergotic ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Relating to or produced by ergot

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

ergot (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)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"Desperate diseases must have desperate cures." (English proverb)

"There is no winter for who has remained in his mother's womb" (Breton proverb)

"The envious was created only to be infuriated." (Arabic proverb)

"He who studies does not waste his time." (Corsican proverb)

Page delivered in 0.0215 seconds