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SCLEROTIUM
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Irregular inflected form: sclerotia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sclerotium" is a kind of...):
mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants
Synonyms:
genus Sclerotium; Sclerotium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Sclerotium" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Holonyms ("Sclerotium" is a member of...):
Mycelia Sterilia; order Mycelia Sterilia (order of imperfect fungi having no known spore stage)
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