Parenchyma vs. Sclerenchyma

Parenchymanoun

(anatomy) The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.

Parenchymanoun

(botany) The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.

Parenchymanoun

(zoology) Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms.

Parenchymanoun

The soft cellular substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, the soft tissue of glands, and the like.

Parenchymanoun

animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels

Parenchymanoun

the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems

Parenchyma

Parenchyma () is the bulk of functional substance in an animal organ or structure such as a tumour. In zoology it is the name for the tissue that fills the interior of flatworms.

Sclerenchymanoun

(botany) A mechanical ground tissue, impermeable to water, which consists of cells having narrow lumen and thick, mineralized walls of lignin; present in stems, vascular bundles (of monocots), seed coverings, and vein and tips of leaves.

Sclerenchymanoun

(zoology) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of the stony corals (Anthozoa).

Sclerenchymanoun

Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.

Sclerenchymanoun

The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.