SCLEROTIUM (sclerotia)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: sclerotia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sclerotium mean? 

• SCLEROTIUM (noun)
  The noun SCLEROTIUM has 2 senses:

1. form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants

2. compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth

  Familiarity information: SCLEROTIUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCLEROTIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sclerotium; Sclerotium

Hypernyms ("Sclerotium" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Holonyms ("Sclerotium" is a member of...):

Mycelia Sterilia; order Mycelia Sterilia (order of imperfect fungi having no known spore stage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sclerotium" is a kind of...):

mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae)