Noun

• S: (n) Claviceps, genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)
• member holonym
• member meronym
• S: (n) ergot, Claviceps purpurea (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)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
• S: (n) genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
• S: (n) taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon (animal or plant group having natural relations)
• S: (n) biological group (a group of plants or animals)
• S: (n) group, grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)