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