Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Earcockle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Earcockle \Ear"coc`kle\, n. (Bot.)
A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted
grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.
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