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