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sclerotium

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Noun

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

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

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Sclerotium genus Sclerotium

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Words pronounced/spelled similarly to "sclerotium":
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Words contain "sclerotium":
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