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Definition of Columnar
1. Adjective. Having the form of a column. "A columnlike tree trunk"
2. Adjective. Characterized by columns. "Columnar construction"
Definition of Columnar
1. a. Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
Definition of Columnar
1. Adjective. Having the shape of a column. ¹
2. Adjective. Constructed with columns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Columnar
1. column [adj] - See also: column
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columnar
Literary usage of Columnar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1906)
"CHAPTER III THE columnar BUILDINGS AND GRECIAN INFLUENCE 'EMORIAL architecture
is so often columnar, under the Empire, that the consideration of its ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"columnar or Cylindrical Epithelium (Fig. 4) is formed of cylindrical or rod-shaped
... columnar epithelium covers the mucous membrane and nearly the whole ..."
3. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"columnar structure. Hardened lava sometimes assumes a columnar structure (Figs.
414 and 415). This is probably the result of the contraction incident to ..."
4. A Text-book of Histology by Alexander A. Böhm, M. von Davidoff (1904)
"(c) Simple columnar Epithelium.—In this type the cells take the form of prisms or
... columnar epithelium occurs in the entire intestinal tract from the ..."
5. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"Only the surface cells are columnar, the deeper cells being irregular in shape.
... —Stratified columnar Epithelium from the Hu:nan Male Urethra. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"columnar ARCHITECTURE. One in which free columns form i an important part COLUMNS
... columnar architecture has been so much studied by architects and ..."
7. Greek Refinements: Studies in Temperamental Architecture by William Henry Goodyear (1912)
"Greatest adjacent columnar diameter variation, 0.13. Greatest extreme columnar
diameter variation, 0.22. 27 This theory has difficulties of its own, ..."
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