macrosclereid
English
Etymology
macro- + sclereid
Noun
macrosclereid (plural macrosclereids)
- (botany) A columnar sclereid that forms an outer layer in various fruit and seeds.
- 1967, Robert Harold Miller, Crotalaria Seed Morphology, Anatomy, and Identification, page 41:
- No cuticle is present between the macrosclereids of the funicular remnant (see Funicular Remnant, below) and those of the hilum testa.
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