ergot

基本解釋

Cordyceps fungus (see ergot Section), the parasitic larvae of moths in the bat.
蟲(chóng)草屬真菌（見(jiàn)麥角科），寄生在蝙蝠蛾幼蟲(chóng)體內(nèi)。
The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.
目前制造麥角溴煙酯的工藝仍然相當(dāng)復(fù)雜，它要用到麥角菌——一種寄生在黑麥中細(xì)菌。
Another extra risk factor in organic production is the avoidance of fungicides, which can lead to the growth of moulds and increased risk of mycotoxins such as aflatoxin and ergot in crops.
有機(jī)生產(chǎn)中存在的另一個(gè)問(wèn)題是拒絕使用殺真菌劑，這樣就會(huì)致使霉菌生長(zhǎng)，造成農(nóng)作物中黃曲霉素和麥角堿之類(lèi)的霉菌毒大量增加。

The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.
ECONOMIST: LSD
Over the centuries, the main culprits in mass food poisoning have often been mycotoxins, such as ergotamine from ergot or fumonisin from Fusarium species, resulting from the fungal contamination of unprocessed crops.
FORBES: Bittman of the 'New York Times': Always Out To Lunch
As he worked in the Sandoz research laboratory in Basel in Switzerland on April 16th 1943, isolating and synthesising the unstable alkaloids of the ergot fungus, Albert Hofmann began to feel a slight lightheadedness.
ECONOMIST: Albert Hofmann, chemist, died on April 29th, aged 102

a disease of cereals and other grasses caused by ascomycete fungi of the genus Claviceps, esp C. purpurea, in which the seeds or grain of the plants are replaced by the spore-containing bodies (sclerotia) of the fungus