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Definition of Columnlike
1. Adjective. Having the form of a column. "A columnlike tree trunk"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columnlike
Literary usage of Columnlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a
columnlike tree. The corpse was dressed in a uniform that once had been blue, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and fetter'd all his limbs ; So that he could nor flee, nor shun the dart,
But, columnlike, or like some tall-topp'd tree, Stood motionless, ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1856)
"These five peaks, all of granite, rise so precipitously, so columnlike, from the
broken ground which forms the root of the mountain, as at first sight to ..."
4. Dana's Manual of Mineralogy for the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the by James Dwight Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1912)
"In stout columnlike individuals. b. Fibrous. In slender columnar individuals.
The fibers may be parallel or radiated (see D, pi. II.) c. Stellated. ..."
5. First Principles of Agriculture by Emmett Stull Goff, Dexter Dwight Mayne (1904)
"The columnlike part in the center of the flower is called the pistil. This, also,
con- stg sists of three principal parts. (Figure 51. ..."
6. The Spirit of the East by David Urquhart (1839)
"Wherever you ascended from the level ground, you came upon the round, straight,
columnlike trunks of the beech, giving access to the deep shadows as if of ..."
7. A Popular Guide to Minerals by Louis Pope Gratacap (1912)
"... cylindrical growth; example, flos-ferri (aragonite). Columnar, columnlike, in
vertical or elongated partitions and polyhedrons. ..."
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