Cel·lu·lar a.
 1. 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.
 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.

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 Con·junc·tive a.
 1. Serving to unite; connecting together.
 2. Closely united. [Obs.]
 Conjunctive mood Gram., the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood.
 Conjunctive tissue Anat., the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.

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 Con·nect·ive a. Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
 Connection tissue Anat. See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.