ergots in English
noun
1
a fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black, elongated, fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
One of the first recorded attacks was in the seventh century BC when the Assyrians used a fungal disease called ergot to poison water supplies.
2
a small, horny protuberance on the back of each of a horse's fetlocks.
I have chosen to write about the evolution of the horse's chestnut as well as the ergot .
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