1. Furnished with cells; arranged or constructed in the form of cells. Often with some defining word prefixed, as single-, one-, two-celled. Also fig.
1776. Withering, Bot. Arrangem. (1796), II. 397. Lychnis Caps[ule] 1–3, or 5-celled.
1843–6. Owen, Lect. Comp. Anat., iv. (L.). The single-celled plant.
1854. S. Thomson, Wild Fl., I. (ed. 4), 65. Anthers … one-celled.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, 8. Heaven’s azure world-hive, celled with stars.
2. Enclosed or ensconced in a cell.
1650. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death, 58. The spirits … seem scattered over their whole bodie, rather than Celled.
1820. Keats, Fancy. Thou shalt see the field-mouse peep Meagre from its celled sleep.
1850. D. Moir, Hour of Thought, v. The monk in hood, With book and rood, And nun in cell’d contrition.
