CELLAR

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 6

(Fr. cellier.) In Architecture, the lower story of a building, when wholly or partly under the level of the ground. CELLEPORES, CELLEPORiE. (Lat. cella, a cell; por us, apore.) A genus of flexible cellular Polyps, including those in which each of the cells is pierced with a minute pore. [s. 220]