Sclerotium Synonyms

sklə-rōshē-əm, -shəm
Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genus Sclerotium

Words Related to Sclerotium

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. cepivorum
  2. mycelium
  3. rolfsii
  4. alternaria
  5. pycnidia
  6. brassicae
  7. rhizoctonia
  8. sporangium
  9. teliospore

Sclerotium Sentence Examples

  • Physiologically, any cell or group of cells separated off from a hypha or unicellular fungus, and capable of itself growing out - germinating - to reproduce the fungus, is a spore; but it is evident that so wide a definition does not exclude the ordinary vegetative cells of sprouting fungi, such as yeasts, or small sclerotium like cell-aggregates of forms like Coniothecium.

  • In other cases (Diplodia, Aecidium, &c.) conidial or oidial "fructifications" arise by a number of hyphae interweaving themselves into a knot, as if they were forming a sclerotium.

  • The ear loses its starch, and ceases to grow, and its ovaries become penetrated with the white spongy tissue of the mycelium of the fungus which towards the end of the season forms the sclerotium, in which state the fungus lies dormant through the winter.