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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 scle·ren·chy·ma /skləˈrɛŋkəmə/
 厚壁組織

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scle·ren·chy·ma n.
 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.
 2. Zool. The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
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