Definition of Columel

1. a small column-like anatomical part [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Columel

columbic acid
columbiferous
columbiform
columbiform bird
columbine
columbines
columbinic
columbinic acid
columbite
columbite-tantalite
columbites
columbium
columbiums
columbo
columbyn
columel (current term)
columella auris
columella cochleae
columella nasi
columellae
columellar
columelliform
columelloplasties
columelloplasty
columels
column cells
column chromatography
column density

Literary usage of Columel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A glossary of biological, anatomical and physiological terms by Thomas Dunman (1879)
"columel'la au'ris (L. little ear column).—A small bone, which in birds, most reptiles, ... columel'la coch'lese (L. little column of the cochlea). ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"columel la. (L. dim. of columna, a column. ... C. cochleae. (Cochlea.) The modiolus of the cochlea. columel lar. (L. columella, a little pillar. ..."

3. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... it bears at its extremity the privileged embryo, the only one which develops, as in Ephedra helvetica, CA Mey. ; columel'la ; (1) a persistent central ..."

4. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1829)
"... vide columel. 1.12. c. 8. bundles of mint, thyme, coriander, savory, &c. ... Vide et columel. 1.10. v. 405. Plin. HN 1.15. ..."

5. The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations: Being an Essential and by Jakob Bernoulli, John Wallis (1795)
"... the columel ... the next columel, you find 3 ; That is, 1767 is no prime, and 3 is the leaft ..."

6. Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor by William Martin Leake (1824)
"... vide columel. 1.12. c. 8. bundles of mint, thyme, coriander, savory, &c. ... Vide et columel. 1. 10. v. 4O5. Plin. HN 1.15. ..."

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