Sekirov Dictionary

scleroid

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 3

adjective2

•
Having a hard texture.
- The shells of nuts are scleroid.
•
thickened.
- Did you find his drums were thickened and scleroid ? — 1953

noun2

•
A plant cell with thick cell walls.
- At the end of gall formation isolated scleroids are differentiated in the gall parenchyma, and much more rarely, tracheids and vessels. — 1961
•
The outermost layer of an eyeball.
- This is caused by the scleroid which turns around the optic nerve, and projects somewhat above it, thus forming, when illuminated, the clear scleroidal margin. — 1860

forms

scleroids · more scleroid · most scleroid

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