acellular

1. 1.

   not made up of or divided into cells

   Synonymsnoncellular

   Similarcell-freesingle-celled

Questions about acellular

What does acellular mean?

acellular means "not made up of or divided into cells".

How many syllables are in acellular?

acellular has 4 syllables: a-cel-lu-lar. The stress falls on "cel".

What is another word for acellular?

Close synonyms include noncellular. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acellular a common word?

acellular is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.