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Webster 1913 Edition


Cellular

Cel′lu-lar

(sĕl′ŭ-lẽr; 135)
,
Adj.
[L.
cellula
a little cell: cf. F.
cellulaire
. See
Cellule
.]
1.
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 algæ.
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 and 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cellular

CELLULAR

,
Adj.
Consisting of cells, or containing cells.
The cellular membrane, in animal bodies, is composed of an infinite number of minute cells, communicating with each other. It invests every fiber, and seems to be the medium of connection between all parts of the body. The cells serve as reservoirs for fat.

Definition 2024


cellular

cellular

See also: cel·lular

English

Adjective

cellular (comparative more cellular, superlative most cellular)

  1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
    • 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171:
      The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.

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Noun

cellular (plural cellulars)

  1. (US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).

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