PARENCHYMA
- the ordinary soft thin-walled tissue of plants, not differentiated into conducting or mechanical tissue [n -S]
- Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms
- The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue
- The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc