SCLERENCHYMATA Antonyms

• a port city in southern Ireland

• outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.

• (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

• the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

• a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

• close a bottle with a cork

• stuff with cork

• the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

• the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal

• the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus

• the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates

• undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root

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

• 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

• (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

• soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• remove the pith from (a plant)

• the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels

• A living, elongated, mechanical and flexible ground tissue with angular pectin depositions; present just under leaves, tendrils and stems of climbers; formed before vascular differentiation.