a. [f. CELLULE + -OUS. Cf. Fr. celluleux.] = CELLULOSE a.; consisting of a single cell or an aggregate of cells.
1800. Med. Jrnl., IV. 276. To know whether the most solid, compact, and, as it were, stony part of a bone were cellulous.
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 253/1. Cellulous hydatids are simple bags containing fluid.
1852. Dana, Crust., I. 164. Hand and carpus with a cellulous surface.
