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Sclerenchyma   Listen
noun
Sclerenchyma  n.  
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.
2.
(Zool.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.





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... these shreds are ample for examination. It can readily be removed without tearing, if soaked in water for a few hours. The spermoderm is thin enough not to need sectioning. It consists of two elements—sclerenchyma and parenchyma cells. (Figs. ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers


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