Sclerenchyma

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sclerenchyma \Scle*ren"chy*ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. sklhro`s hard
     + -enchyma as in parenchyma.]
     1. (Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with
        thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the
        gritty parts of a pear. See {Sclerotic}.
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     Note: By recent German writers and their English translators,
           this term is used for {liber cells}. --Goodale.
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     2. (Zool.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of
        Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
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