Definition of Genus sclerotium

1. Noun. Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants.

Exact synonyms: Sclerotium
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Mycelia Sterilia, Order Mycelia Sterilia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sclerotium

genus Schlumbergera
genus Schomburgkia
genus Sciadopitys
genus Sciaena
genus Sciaenops
genus Sciara
genus Scilla
genus Scincella
genus Scincus
genus Scindapsus
genus Scirpus
genus Sciurus
genus Scleranthus
genus Scleroderma
genus Sclerotinia
genus Sclerotium
genus Scolopax
genus Scolopendrium
genus Scolymus
genus Scolytus
genus Scomber
genus Scomberesox
genus Scomberomorus
genus Scombresox
genus Scophthalmus
genus Scopolia
genus Scorpaena
genus Scorzonera
genus Scrophularia
genus Scutellaria

Literary usage of Genus sclerotium

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

1. The Intellectual Observer (1862)
"HYBERNATION OF FUNGI—THE genus sclerotium. BY THE EEV. MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY, MA, FLS UP to a very recent date the science of ..."

2. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1817)
"From an Essay on the genus Sclerotium, by Mons. De Candolle, in the Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, ..."

3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1817)
"... according to the old opinion, as a degeneracy in the grain, and not as a fungus of the genus sclerotium, as is the opinion of M. de Candolle. ..."

4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1842)
"... Je- te i mined that the ergot was a distinct parasitic plant, i'.ne- loping itself from the ovary of graves, and referred it lu the genus Sclerotium. ..."

5. Library of Useful Knowledge (1838)
"Neither have we a right fo say that a cobwebby substance produces the genus Agaric in the summer, and the genus Sclerotium in the winter. ..."

6. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"... genus Sclerotium is one which, for a long time, has occupied a doubtful position in the family of the Fungi. After having been bandied about from one ..."

7. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"... like contagion in the disease, which may very possibly take place through the agency of insects. In an Essay on the genus Sclerotium by De Candolle, ..."

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