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While eating pear fruit it is usually se...

While eating pear fruit it is usually seen that some stone like structures get entangled in the teeth, what are these stone like structures called ?

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The stone - like structures that we feel while eating pear fruit are the branchy sclereids or stone cells which are isodiametric sclereids with hand cell wall.
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