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[Dim of
cellar.] A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few
bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer,
or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with
metal.


Cel"lar*ist (?), n. Same as
Cellarer.


Celled (?), a. Containing a
cell or cells.


Cel"le*pore (?), n. [L.
cella cell + porus, Gr. &?;, passage.]
(Zoöl.) A genus of delicate branching corals,
made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.


Cel*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Cell
+ -ferous.] Bearing or producing cells.


||Cel"lo (ch&ebreve;l"l&osl;), n.;
pl. E. Cellos (ch&ebreve;l"l&osl;z), It.
Celli (ch&ebreve;l"lē). A
contraction for Violoncello.


Cel"lu*lar (s&ebreve;l"ŭ*l&etilde;r; 135),
a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F.
cellulaire. See Cellule.] 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.


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