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Definitions for: Cellular
[adj] characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization); "the cellular construction of a beehive"; "any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular"; "a cellular phone uses a network of shortrange transmitters located in overlapping cells"
[adj] (biology) relating to cells; "cellular walls"; "cellular physiology"
Webster (1913) Definition: Cel"lu*lar, a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F.
cellulaire. See Cellule.]
Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a
cell or cells.
Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those
flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their
tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and alg[ae].
Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory,
according to which the essential element of every tissue,
either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of
cells having been formed from the development of the germ
cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and
organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be
considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with
each other.
Cellular tissue.
(a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive.
(b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having
no woody fiber or ducts.
Synonyms: alveolate, cancellate, cancellated, cancellous, cavitied, cell-like, faveolate, honeycombed, multicellular, pitted
Antonyms: acellular, noncellular
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