Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sclerenchyma \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.