macrosclereid

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noun

A columnar sclereid that forms an outer layer in various fruit and seeds.

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Meanings

nounmacrosclereid (plural macrosclereids)

plural macrosclereids

  1. biologyA 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

Origin

From macro- + sclereid.

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