scleroid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A plant cell with thick cell walls.
Example Sentences
- "The shells of nuts are scleroid."
- "This scleroid form , which plays a very important part in the vegetation of Fungi, is only a transitory one; it always proceeds from the filamentous state, and may be compared with the tubers of the Potato, and not with a true subterranean stem; its life is truly latent, and only preserved by the hygrometric nature of its tissue."
- "The scleroid patches, when present, took no part in the reaction. No new scleroid tissue was produced."
- "The walls of these scleroid basidia often reach 1 μm or more in thickness and the walls stain deeply with congo red."
- "Did you find his drums were thickened and scleroid ?"
- "Pharyngeal walls thick, scleroid."
Etymology
From sclero- + -oid.