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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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  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.
  3. 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. Note: By recent german writers and their English translation, this term is used for liber cells. Goodale. 2. (Zoöl.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituing the stony corals.
  4. Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened orhardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. SeeSclerotic.
  5. n. Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. n. The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.