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macrosclereids

macrosclereids is the plural of macrosclereid.

Meaning of macrosclereid

Noun

macrosclereid (plural macrosclereids)

  1. A columnar sclereid that forms an outer layer in various fruit and seeds.
    • No cuticle is present between the macrosclereids of the funicular remnant (see Funicular Remnant, below) and those of the hilum testa.1967, Robert Harold Miller, Crotalaria Seed Morphology, Anatomy, and Identification, page 41

Questions about macrosclereids

What is macrosclereids the plural of?
Macrosclereids is the plural of macrosclereid.

Words near macrosclereids in the dictionary

  1. macroscelids
  2. macroschizont
  3. macroschizonts
  4. macroscian
  5. macrosclereid
  6. macrosclereids
  7. macroscope
  8. macroscopes
  9. macroscopia
  10. macroscopic
  11. macroscopical

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