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Sclerenchyma [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.

2. The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.

Sclerenchymatous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.