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Meaning of 'sclerenchyma' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sclerenchyma [ n.]
- Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
- The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.

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