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CLAVICEPS PURPUREA
What These Words Mean
CLAVICEPS PURPUREA noun
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
Solving Jumble Words by Hand
Before reaching for a solver, try these anagram tricks: separate the vowels from the consonants, look for common endings such as -ING, -ED and -LY, test frequent letter pairs (TH, CH, ST, ER), and write the letters in a circle so your brain stops seeing the scrambled order. Most five-letter Jumble words fall to these techniques, and daily practice makes you dramatically faster.
Once you have all four words, the circled letters feed the final cartoon punchline. Enter those circled letters above and the solver will find multi-word answers too. For a full walkthrough see how to play Daily Jumble, or check today's answers.