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sclerotium   (TTS Sound)

The noun sclerotium has 2 senses

• Sclerotium, genus Sclerotium -- (form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants)


• sclerotium -- (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)