noun
- a type of plant cell with thick, lignified walls that provides structural support
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Sclereids give pears their characteristic gritty texture.
- The hard shell of a walnut contains many sclereids.
- Botanists identified sclereids in the leaf tissue under the microscope.
- Stone cells, or sclereids, make some fruits feel sandy when eaten.
- The protective seed coat was reinforced with sclereids.
- Sclereids provide mechanical strength to plant structures.