Word Meanings - CELLULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams , those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or

Additional info about word: CELLULAR

Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams , those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory , 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. See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. cellular telephone, a portable radio- telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.

Related words: (words related to CELLULAR)

• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• FIBER; FIBRE
  1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• FIBERLESS; FIBRELESS
  Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• INTERCELLULAR
  Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• UNICELLULAR
  Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• GERM THEORY
  The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis. 2. The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.