sclerotium
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1. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | mycelium, |
| definition | : | the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae (noun.plant) |
2. form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fungus genus, |
| definition | : | includes lichen genera (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | mycelia sterilia, order mycelia sterilia, |
| definition | : | order of imperfect fungi having no known spore stage (noun.plant) |
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