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acellular

adj

Etymology

From a- + cellular.

  1. borrowed from cellulāris
  2. prefixed as acellular — “a + cellular”

Definitions

  1. Not composed of cells

    Not composed of cells; not cellular

    • Acellular background is that which is still present when the cells are removed from the microscope.

  2. Especially of protists

    Especially of protists: consisting of only one complex cell.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acellular. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA