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Definition of: sclerotium
(sklə·rō′shē·əm) noun plural ·ti·a (-shē·ə) Bot.
A compact horny mass of mycelium, found in certain higher fungi; especially, in the myxomycetes, a plasmodium, or part of a plasmodium, dry and hard, which for some time remains dormant. [<NL <Gk. sklēros hard]
—scle·ro′ti·oid (-shē·oid), scle·ro′tial (-shəl) adjective
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