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cellule|ˈsɛljuːl|
Also 7 cellul.
[ad. L. cellula, dim. of cella cell n.1]
1.
†a. A small compartment; a pigeon-hole. Also fig.; cf. cell n.1 11 c. Obs.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 293, I could have firreted out of topick celluls such variety of arguments. a1693― Rabelais iii. xxxiii. 240 The Celluls of his Brain. 1764Foote Patron ii. i, A kind of bureau; where, in separate cellules, my different knowledge..is stor'd. 1818J. Brown Psyche 212 So liquor aids myself—like rain, It opes the cellules of the brain. 1819H. Busk Banquet iii. 209 Unlock the cellules, closets of the brain.
b. A small room or cell.
1894A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 222 The family should take a whole house..instead of the two rooms and a cellule upstairs now rented. 1908Westm. Gaz. 12 June 8/1 ‘Each go into a cell and shut the door!’ ordered a warderess, indicating a row of tiny cellules.
2. Phys. A minute cell (cell n.1 11) or cavity.
(In Fr. the dim. cellule is used in sense of cell n.1 12.)
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 237 Cellular tissue, which..offers an instance of reticulated cellules. 1857H. Miller Test. Rocks xi. 493 Both possess discs on the side of their cellules. 1869Gillmore Rept. & Birds Introd. 2 In birds, the lungs are spongy, the cavity of the air-bags becoming obliterated by the multiplication of vascular cellules.
3. Zool. (See quot.)
1848Dana Zooph. ii. 16 note, By cellule, as hereafter used, the minute pores of the corallum will be referred to. |