scleroid

American

[skleer-oid, skler-] / ˈsklɪər ɔɪd, ˈsklɛr- /

adjective

Biology.

hard or indurated.

scleroid British

/ ˈsklɪərɔɪd /

adjective

(of organisms and their parts) hard or hardened

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Etymology

Origin of scleroid

First recorded in 1855–60; scler- + -oid

Example Sentences

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It is distinguished by some writers as nematoid, fibrous, hymenoid, scleroid or tuberculous, and malacoid.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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