Scle‐ren″chy‐ma (?), n. [NL., from Gr. σκληρόσ 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.
☞ By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for liber cells. Goodale.
2. (Zoöl.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.