Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supportive plant tissue that consists of thick-walled, usually lignified cells. Sclerenchyma cells are either fibers or sclereids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hard sub stance of the calcareous skeleton or corallum of sclerodermic corals, a proper tissue-secretion or calcification of the soft parts of the polyps themselves.
- noun In botany, the tissue largely composing the hard parts of plants, such as the shell (endocarp) of the hickory-nut, the seed-coat of seeds, the hypoderma of leaves, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See
sclerotic . - noun (Zoöl.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
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- noun botany A mechanical, supportive
ground tissue in plants consisting of aggregates ofcells having thick, often mineralized walls - noun zoology The hard
calcareous deposit in thetissues ofAnthozoa , constituing thestony corals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is a broad well developed continuous band of sclerenchyma, which is connected at regular intervals with the epidermis by small vascular bundles.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The sclerenchyma lying on the lower side of the primary bundles are contiguous with the bundle, while those above are separated from the bundle by the chlorophyllous layer.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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For example, in the leaves of _Panicum repens_ both the primary and secondary bundles are provided with sclerenchyma on both the sides, while those of the third order may have it on one side or not.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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All the cells lying in the furrow between the motor-cells and the sclerenchyma are clear cells free from chlorophyll grains.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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However, when we take into consideration the arrangement of bundles, the development and arrangement of sclerenchyma, every species of grass has its own special characteristics.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The other vascular bundles may have bands of sclerenchyma on both sides or on one side only or none.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The lower region usually forms a more or less clearly marked midrib, and consists of parenchymatous cells, some of which may contain oil-bodies or be differentiated as mucilage cells or sclerenchyma fibres.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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In the case of smaller bundles some are strengthened by sclerenchyma on the lower side and others have none.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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An ordinary epidermal cell; st. stomata; sc. sclerenchyma; ph. phloen;
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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But in the leaves of this grass, the development of sclerenchyma is not very considerable, but there is a great development of parenchymatous cells free from chlorophyll within the leaf, the chlorophyll bearing cells being confined to the upper and the lower surfaces of the leaves.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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