cellulinn.
/ˈsɛljᵿlɪn/, U.S. /ˈsɛljəˌlən/ 1. Biochemistry. = cellulose n. disused.
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1843 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 5 44/2 Theory, then, points out to us the different uses of the vegetable substances exclusively composed of cellulin.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 257 Composed of cellulin, a material allied to the cellulose of vegetable tissues.
1870 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) i. ii. 18 The membrane..consists of the substance called cellulose or cellulin.
1917 E. H. Funk Potter's Therapeutics, Materia Medica, & Pharmacy (ed. 13) 5 Cellulin in the form of Cotton is used extensively by both the surgeon and the pharmacist.
2. Mycology. A complex of chitin and glucan, found in granules in cells and at hyphal constrictions in certain aquatic oomycetes. Usually attributive, esp. in cellulin granule, cellulin plug.
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1894 Bot. Gaz. 19 51 The hyphæ..consist of successive segments connected by constricted portions, which may be plugged by a deposit of cellulin.
1900 Bot. Gaz. 30 98 In the Saprolegniaceae Trow has suggested that the so-called cellulin granules are a form of reserve cellulose, which may be used to close the opening made by the breaking of a hypha.
1945 J. C. Gilman Man. Soil Fungi i. 134 Leptomitales... Thalli with or without a well-defined basal cell and holdfasts, the hyphae divided into constricted pseudocells by pseudosepta of cellulin, walls giving a cellulose reaction.
2000 Mycologia 92 681/2 Other ancestral states inferred in this analysis include..absence of cellulin granules.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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