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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