What's the difference between collenchyma and merenchyma?
Collenchyma
Definition:
(n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many characters of leaf (hair, hypodermal cells, palisade layers, intercellular space, distinction between spongy and palisade parenchyma, "palisade ratio", distribution of collenchyma and sclerenchyma, presence or absence of starch grains, calcium oxalate crystals, number, shape and arrangement of bundles of petiole) are useful distinguishing characters.
(2) The collenchyma was degraded in the rumen although with acid phloroglucinol it stained positive for the presence of phenolic compounds.
(3) Those techniques were applied to the study in situ of the walls of actively elongating parenchyma of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus), and pea (Pisum sativum) root and of collenchyma of celery (Apium graveolens) petioles.
(4) The architecture of the expanding wall of mung bean hypocotyl (Phaseolus aureus) and collenchyma of celery (Apium graveolens) was examined using freeze-etching without any cryoprotectant, and surface-replication of frozen-ground and air-dried specimens.