Hyphenation of ergot

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ergot? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of ergot:

1.	A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
2.	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

Synonyms of ergot:

noun	plant disease
noun	Claviceps purpurea, fungus

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