Definition of Scleres

1. sclere [n] - See also: sclere

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleres

sclerectomy
scleredema
scleredema adultorum
scleregenous
sclereid
sclereids
sclerema
sclerema adiposum
sclerema neonatorum
scleremas
sclerencephaly
sclerenchymas
sclerenchymatous
sclerenchyme
scleres (current term)
sclereskeleton
scleriasis
sclerite
sclerites
scleritic
scleritis
scleritises
scleritome
scleritomes
sclero-
sclero-oophoritis
scleroatrophy
sclerobase
sclerobases

Literary usage of Scleres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... are mega- scleres with four ... V. Spheres are mega- scleres in which growth is concentric round a central point. ..."

2. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... which form the principal framework of the body, micro- scleres occurring throughout the mesoglea and being of a variety of forms, but usually reducible ..."

3. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"J . palm; It, It, lateral tooth or palm; s, shaft • in one direction only, when the scleres are said to ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1897)
"No micro- scleres. The arrangement of the spicules in dense wide tracts with intervening spaces almost or quite devoid of spicules appears to he also very ..."

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