*lula*

‖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 ]

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 ]

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

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

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 ]

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

‖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 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Ululated p. pr. & vb. n. Ululating. ] [ L. ululatus, p. p. of ululare to howl, yell, shriek. ] To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ululatio. ] A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He may fright others with his ululation. Wither. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. See Umbellule. ] (Zool.) A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base. [ 1913 Webster ]