Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sclerotium

2 senses of sclerotium

Sense 1
Sclerotium, genus Sclerotium -- (form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants)
       => fungus genus -- (includes lichen genera)

Sense 2
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)
       => mycelium -- (the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae)