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sclerenchyma |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sclerenchyma \Scle*ren"chy*ma\, n. [NL., from Gr sklhro`s 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}. Note: By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for {liber cells}. --Goodale. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
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