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noun

Columella n.

(Bot.)

(a)

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

(b)

A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.

(Anat.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

(Zool.)

(a)

The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.

(b)

The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

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Etymology of 'Columella'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and Dorking have been associated ever since. The true Dorking fowl is a large, well-feathered bird, and walks on five toes instead of lesser fowls' four. He has always been a great fowl for the table and historians have written about him since the days of Columella. Thus a contributor to ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... Mago and Hamilcar were regarded as the best authorities on the latter subject both by the Greeks and Romans, and were followed, among the Greeks by Mnaseas and Paxamus,[1341] among the Romans by Varro and Columella.[1342] So highly was the work of Mago, which ran to twenty-eight books, esteemed, that, on the taking of Carthage, it was translated into Latin by order of the Roman Senate.[1343] After the fall of Carthage, Tyre and Sidon once more became seats of learning; but the Phoenician ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... 123). The specimens of this shell which I have myself collected in Touraine, or have seen in museums, are thicker and heavier than British individuals of the same species, and shorter in proportion to their width, and have the folds on the columella less oblique, as ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

Words linked to "Columella" : column, pillar