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Sclerenchyma
Scle-ren′chy-ma
,Noun.
[NL., from Gr.
σκληρόσ
hard + -enchyma
as in parenchyma
.] 1.
(Bot.)
Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See
Sclerotic
. ☞ By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for
liber cells
. Goodale.
2.
(Zool.)
The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.