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sclerotium

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sclerotium /scle·ro·ti·um/ (sklĕ-ro´she-um) a structure formed by fungi and certain protozoa in response to adverse environmental conditions, which will germinate under favorable conditions; in fungi, it is a hard mass of intertwined mycelia, usually with pigmented walls, and in protozoa it is a multinucleated hard cyst into which the plasmodium divides.
sclerotium [sklĕ-ro´she-um]
a hard blackish mass formed by certain fungi, as ergot.
sclerotium
pl. sclerotia; a hard blackish mass of mycelia formed during the resting phase by certain fungi, as Claviceps purpurea.
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