CELLAR

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 8

(Fr. cellier.) In Architecture, the lower story of a building, when wholly or partly under the level of the ground. CELLEPORES, CELLEPOR^E. (Lat. cella, a ««; por us, a pore.) A genus of flexible cellular Polyps, including those in which each of the cells is pierced with a minute pore. [s. 217]