Usually means: Plant fiber, structural carbohydrate polymer.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cellulose: Merriam-Webster
  2. cellulose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cellulose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cellulose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cellulose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cellulose, cellulose: Wordnik
  7. cellulose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cellulose: Wiktionary
  9. cellulose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cellulose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cellulose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cellulose: Dictionary.com
  13. cellulose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cellulose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cellulose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cellulose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Cellulose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cellulose: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cellulose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cellulose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cellulose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. cellulose: Rhymezone
  23. cellulose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. cellulose: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cellulose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cellulose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cellulose: Natural Health glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. cellulose: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. cellulose: Medical dictionary
  8. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  4. cellulose: Natural History Terms

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Paper Making (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. CELLULOSE: Glossary of Composting Terms

(Note: See celluloses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.
noun:  (biochemistry) A polysaccharide containing many glucose units in parallel chains.
adjective:  Consisting of, or containing, cells.

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