Bot. rare. [irreg. f. Gr. στερ-εός solid + ἔγχῡμα infusion, after parenchyma.] = SCLERENCHYMA 2.
1856. Griffith & Henfrey, Microgr. Dict., 642. Sterenchyma, a name which might be used to distinguish the bony cellular tissue of shells, stones of fruit, &c.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 28. When … parenchymatous cells become much thickened by … secondary deposits,… if the secondary deposits are of bony hardness, as in the stones of fruits, &c., Henfrey has proposed the term sterenchyma.
