sclerotium
noun
a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
sclerotia
-
pluralof sclerotium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Last year’s bumper crop came from the sclerotia of two of them — variant 195 and 234.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
The sclerotia remain in the soil for years as the source of future infections.
From Time Magazine Archive
The disease typically infects soybeans during flowering, resulting in stem lesions with extensive growth of white mold and formation of hard, black sclerotia.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the sclerotia or resting bodies of the fungus.
From Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by W. W. (William Warner) Tracy
The plants are usually found growing upon dead tree stumps; some grow upon the ground; a few are parasitic on other fungi or springing from sclerotia, small impacted masses of mycelium.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
