Meaning of scleroid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a hard texture.
2. thickened.

Examples

“The shells of nuts are scleroid.”

“This scleroid form , which plays a very important part in the vegetation of Fungi, is only a transitory one; it always proceeds from the filamentous state, and may be compared with the tubers of the Potato, and not with a true subterranean stem; its life is truly latent, and only preserved by the hygrometric nature of its tissue.”

“The scleroid patches, when present, took no part in the reaction. No new scleroid tissue was produced.”

“The walls of these scleroid basidia often reach 1 μm or more in thickness and the walls stain deeply with congo red.”

“Did you find his drums were thickened and scleroid ?”

“Pharyngeal walls thick, scleroid.”

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