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Definition of Scleroid
1. a. Having a hard texture, as nutshells.
Definition of Scleroid
1. Adjective. (botany) Having a hard texture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scleroid
1. sclerous [adj] - See also: sclerous
Medical Definition of Scleroid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleroid
Literary usage of Scleroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"The tubercular or scleroid consists of globose or flattened regular or ...
This scleroid form, which plays a very important part in the vegetation of Fungi, ..."
2. Handbook of Electricity in Medicine by Hyacinthe Guilleminot (1906)
"This is connected to the negative pole and plunged into the scleroid tissue.
Care should be taken not to overpass the boundaries of the ..."
3. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1873)
"... compact and solid, for a long time regarded as a perfect fungus, and was called
Sclerotium; this is the scleroid or tuberculous mycelium of M. Leveille. ..."
4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Good cultivation and well-selected seed are the only remedies, and even these
are not always efficient. [MJ В.] scleroid. Having a hard texture ..."
5. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1892)
"... or fungoid, scleroid, and fibroid. It is the principal factor of granular
lesions of the cornea; it is also the clinical soil of ..."