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English → English (gcide) Definition: Sclerenchyma 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. [1913 Webster] Note: By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for liber cells. --Goodale. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals. [1913 Webster]