Crossword-Solution: SCLEROTIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sclerotium | n. | A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot. |
| Sclerotium | n. | The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium. |
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| a hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SCLEROTIUM (5)
This fungus, called _Sclerotium_ sp., or "Rolf's Sclerotium," is noteworthy because it attacks potatoes, squash, cowpea, and a long list of other garden vegetables and ornamental plants.
Stem filiform, flaccid; clubs cylindrical, perfectly distinct from hymenium, sometimes springing from a sclerotium; hymenium thin and waxy.
The stems run deep into the earth and are attached to a sclerotium, which will be seen in the halftone.
Where the filaments are so small and close that they form very compact bodies, constituting those solid irregular products called sclerotium, it is scleroid or tuberculous mycelium.
The plants of this species are always found springing from an oblong sclerotium; hence the name sclerotipes.