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scleroid

[ skleer-oid, skler- ]

adjective

Biology.
  1. hard or indurated.


scleroid

/ ˈ²õ°ì±ôɪə°ùɔɪ»å /

adjective

  1. (of organisms and their parts) hard or hardened
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Origin of scleroid1

First recorded in 1855–60; scler- + -oid
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It is distinguished by some writers as nematoid, fibrous, hymenoid, scleroid or tuberculous, and malacoid.

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Where the filaments are so small and close that they form very compact bodies, constituting those solid irregular products called sclerotium, it is scleroid or tuberculous mycelium.

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