sclerenchyma Meaning, Definition & Usage

NL., from Gr. hard + -enchyma as in parenchyma.

(Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. ✍ By recent german writers and their English translation, this term is used for liber cells. Goodale.
(Zoöl.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituing the stony corals.