intercellularadj.
/ɪntəˈsɛljʊlə/ Situated between or among cells.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [adjective]
cellular1785
subcellular1828
intercellular1835
intercell1849
intercellulary1874
intracellular1876
pericellular1877
paracellular1900
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 150 Only two cells form an intercellular passage, not three or four.
1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 92 The intercellular substance is not exactly white fibrous tissue.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 93 The fibro-vascular bundle consists at first of similar cells combined without intercellular spaces.
Derivatives
interˈcellularly adv. between cells.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [adverb]
intracellularly1881
intercellularly1935
1935 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (1939) x. 251 The mycelium is long, slender and branching, growing intercellularly within the host.
1950 J. C. Walker Plant Pathol. viii. 346 The fungus develops in the epidermal wall..and it also proceeds intercellularly.
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