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Noun: sclerotium (sclerotia)
  1. Compact usually dark-coloured mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth
Noun: Sclerotium
  1. Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants
    - genus Sclerotium

Derived forms: sclerotia

Type of: fungus genus, mycelium

Part of: Mycelia Sterilia, order Mycelia Sterilia

Encyclopedia: Sclerotium

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