Look up: sclerotium

1. sclerotium
   Hard, resistant, multicellular resting body, usually with a differentiated cortex and medulla, that under favorable conditions can germinate to produce mycelium or sexual or asexual fruiting bodies. (Pl. sclerotia.)
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2. Sclerotium
   A long lived, hard compact mass of vegetatively produced fungal hyphae, usually black on the outside, serving as a resting stage from which frutifications may be formed.
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3. sclerotium
   [n] - form genus of sterile imperfect fungi 2. [n] - compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi
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4. Sclerotium
   Scle·ro'ti·um noun ; plural Sclerotia . [ New Latin , from Greek sklhro`s hard.] 1. (Botany) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea , which produces ergot. 2.
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5. sclerotium
   Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Hard. ... 1. <botany> A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot. ... 2. <zoology> The nature or resting stage of a plasmodium. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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6. Sclerotium
   genus Sclerotium noun form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants
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7. sclerotium
   (sklә-ro´she-әm) a hard blackish mass formed by certain fungi, as ergot.
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8. Sclerotium
   • (n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot. • (n.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
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9. sclerotium
   a persistent, vegetative, resting spore of certain fungi (e.g., Botrytis, Sclerotium). It consists of a hard, dense, compact mycelium (mass of ... [2 related articles]
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10. sclerotium
    Type: Term Pronunciation: sklē-rō′shē-ŭm, -shē-ă Definitions: 1. In fungi, a variably sized resting body composed of a hardened mass of hyphae with or without host tissue, usually with a darkened rind, from which fruit bodies, stromata, conidiophores, or mycelia m...
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11. Sclerotium
    A `sclerotium` (plural sclerotia) is a compact mass of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves. One role of sclerotia is to survive environmental extremes. In some higher fungi such as ergot, sclerotia become detached and remain dormant until a favorable opportunity for growth. Othe...
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