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Definition of Columella
1. Noun. A small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal.
Definition of Columella
1. n. 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.
Definition of Columella
1. Noun. (biology) Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils. ¹
3. Noun. (context: comparative anatomy) In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear. ¹
4. Noun. (malacology) In gastropods, the structure at the center of the whorls of the shell. ¹
5. Noun. (context: coral science) The structure at the center of the calyx where the septa join together. ¹
6. Noun. (mycology) The central sterile portion of the sporangium in various fungi. ¹
7. Noun. (palynology) A rod-shaped reinforcing element of the sexine layer of a pollen grain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Columella
1. [n -MELLAE]
Medical Definition of Columella
1. The central axis of a moss capsule, sometimes applied to the central axis of fruits and cones. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columella
Literary usage of Columella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In those cases where the columella is present in the mature state, ... Hut in
other cases where a definite columella is not present in the mature state, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"columella columella,* the Roman writer on agriculture, of about 5 AD, ...
Not meant for s/iru/'s in technical sense, for I rind columella using ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"When the capsule shrinks the peristome curves outwards and downwards, the disk
of the columella is projected beyond the mouth of the capsule, ..."
4. A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (vertebrata.) by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1906)
"(so-called columella), a slender rod of bone, lying just in front of and external
to the ... The columella auris (Fig. 36), a small rod of combined bone and ..."
5. Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome by Archaeological Institute of America (1905)
"THE TEXT OF columella INCLUDING A COLLATION OF CODEX ... BOOK1 [PLATE XVIII] THE
text of columella is transmitted through two ninth-century manuscripts, ..."
6. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"columella. The columella is represented in the mature calice by a more or ...
In these the columella is conspicuous, raised for a short distance above the ..."
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