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‖n. [ NL., dim. of L. ala a wing. ] (Zool.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the alula. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cellula a little cell: cf. F. cellulaire. See Cellule. ] 1. Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. porous; containing cavities. [ PJC ]

3. pertaining to or using a system of transmission of telephone signals by radio, in which areas are divided into geographical parts (cells), each of which is served by a transmitter whose range is limited to that region, thus permitting a single transmission frequency to be used simulataneously in different parts of the same area. Cellular telephones are typically small and battery powered, allowing a subscriber with such a telephone to carry the telephone in a pocket or purse, over the entire area served, and to be contacted by a single telephone number. The system became widespread and popular in the 1980's and 1990's; as, cellular telephones sometimes lose their link unpredictably. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the state of having cells. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Cellular. Caldwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cellula a small apartment, dim. of cella: cf. F. cellule. See Cell. ] A small cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cellula + -ferous. ] Bearing or producing little cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. cellula + -itis. ] An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cellulose + -oid. ] A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, cotton, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or containing or made from cellulose.
Syn. -- cellulosic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Heb. ] The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. located or occurring outside of a living cell or cells; as, extracellular fluid. Opposite of intracellular. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells; intracellular enzymes. Contrasted with extracellular. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) A dragon fly; -- from Libellula, the name of the typical genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Libellula, the name of the typical genus + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A mountain in Argentina and Chile, 22, 057 feet high. proper name [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lulled p. pr. & vb. n. Lulling. ] [ Akin to OD. lullen to sing to sleep, G. lullen, Dan. lulle, Sw. lulla; all of imitative origin. Cf. Loll, Lollard. ] To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet. “ To lull him soft asleep.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie,
To lull the daughters of necessity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A temporary cessation of storm or confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lull, v. t. ] 1. A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Good night; good-by. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, lulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a lulling manner; soothingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nitro- + cellulose. ] (Chem.) See Gun cotton, under Gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.
Syn. -- acellular. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) See Palulus or Palus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Paluli [ NL., dim. of L. palus a stake. ] (Zool.) Same as Palus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Patellulæ [ NL., dim. of L. patella. See Patella. ] (Zool.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Supported by its own petiolule. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pétiolule. ] (Bot.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pilula a pill. See Pill. ] Like a pill; small; insignificant. [ R. ] G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. pullulatus, p. p. of pullulare to sprout, from pullulus a young animal, a sprout, dim. of pullus. See pullet. ] To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pullulation. ] A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. repullulare, repullulatum. See Pullulate. ] To bud again. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of budding again; the state of having budded again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stellula, dim. of stella a star. ] 1. Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Marked with starlike spots of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Minutely stellate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., a screech owl. ] (Zool.) A genus of owls including the great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) of Arctic America, and other similar species. See Illust. of Owl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Howling; wailing. [ 1913 Webster ]