celluliferousadj.
/ˌsɛljᵿˈlɪf(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˌsɛljəˈlɪf(ə)rəs/ Now chiefly Palaeontology.
Consisting of or bearing cells or cellules; (Palaeontology) designating a surface of a bryozoan zoarium that has a cellular structure (as opposed to a smooth epitheca).
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capsulary1615
vesiculara1682
capsular1727
follicular1743
alveolar1816
antral1820
celluliferous1822
fossiform1824
impressed1826
sacciform1836
vestibular1836
ventricular1841
vestibulary1843
saccular1861
tubero-cystic1879
scrobicular1888
tubulosaccularc1900
vacuolized1910
cisternal1920
lacunate1957
vesiculating1966
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 83 The polypiferous incrustment constitutes, after its removal from the water, a corticiform celluliferous envelope, more or less friable.
1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria ix. 187 Two or four very broad celluliferous plants.
1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 1086 He concludes no generic character can be drawn from the celluliferous character of the dissepiments [of Fenestelloid forms of polyzoa].
1903 J. E. Marr Agric. Geol. xvii. 241 Each side of the ‘polypary’ is celluliferous, and the chitinous rod passes through the centre of the fossil.
1971 Jrnl. Paleontol. 45 721/2 The holotype of S. sparsispinifera belongs among the zoaria with a ‘celluliferous’ base.
1995 Jrnl. Paleontol. 69 831/2 Vertical mesotheca forming weak keel on rounded noncelluliferous reverse side and more pronounced keel on celluliferous obverse side.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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