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Sclerotium

Sclerotium Meaning & Definition
Sclerotium Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sclerotium?

[n] compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth
[n] form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sclerotium: genus Sclerotium

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See Also | fungus genus | Mycelia Sterilia | mycelium | order Mycelia Sterilia

Sclerotium In Webster's Dictionary

\Scle*ro"ti*um\, n.; pl. {Sclerotia}. [NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s hard.] 1. (Bot.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the {Claviceps purpurea}, which produces ergot. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.

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