scleroid
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Is scleroid a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (botany) Having a hard texture.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."
2. (anatomy) thickened.Examples: "Did you find his drums were thickened and scleroid ?"; "Pharyngeal walls thick, scleroid."
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