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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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 Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

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

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

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