scleroid

[ skleer-oid, skler- ]

adjective

, Biology.

1. hard or indurated.

scleroid

/ ˈsklɪərɔɪd /

adjective

1. (of organisms and their parts) hard or hardened

Word History and Origins

Origin of scleroid¹

First recorded in 1855–60; scler- + -oid

Example Sentences

It is distinguished by some writers as nematoid, fibrous, hymenoid, scleroid or tuberculous, and malacoid.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg