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Noun: sclerenchyma  skli'reng-ku-mu
  1. Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear
     
  2. The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals

Derived forms: sclerenchymas

Encyclopedia: Sclerenchyma

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