Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Hard or hardened; indurated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having a hard texture, as the shells of nuts.
  • In zoology, hard, as a sclere or sclerite; seleritic; sclerous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having a hard texture.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek hard + form.

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