1. (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
2. (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
| Sclerenchyma 1. (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. 2. (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals. | |