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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. ([GREEK][GREEK], fr.

σκληρόσ

hard.]

(Med.)

Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

(Bot.)

Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.