Category:Sclerenchyma

Scle*ren"chy*ma, n. Etym: [nl., from gr. -enchyma as in parenchyma.]

1. (bot.)

Defn: 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 translation, this Term is used for liber cells. Goodale.

2. (zoöl.)

Defn: the hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of anthozoa, Constituing the stony corals.