sclerotium

sclerotium is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
2. noun. The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
3. 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
4. noun. form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants

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