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Webster 1913 Edition
Cellular
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.
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.