Definitions for columella

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columella col·u·mel·la

Spelling: [kol-yuh-mel-uh]

IPA: /ˌkɒl yəˈmɛl ə/

Columella is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in columella (acelllmou).

Definitions for columella

noun

1. any of various small, columnlike structures of animals or plants; rod or axis. Mycology. a small central column of sterile tissue within the sporangium of certain fungi, liverworts, and mosses.
2. a small bone in the ear of amphibians, reptiles, and birds.

Origin of columella

1575-85; Latin: small column, equivalent to colum- (variant of column-, stem of columna column) + -ella -elle

Examples for columella

columella straight, with two or three triradiate verticils of horizontal lateral branches, which are inserted in the shell-wall.

The outer lip is sinuous, and the columella is slightly twisted.

The columella is present and the spores are round and minutely warted.

The aperture is as long as the shell; the columella is incurved.

The lower portion of the columella is calloused and roughly granulated.

There is a white nodule at the base of the lip of the columella.

columella was born at Gades (Cadiz), and served in the army in Syria.

This information is obtained from the Latin agriculturist columella.

The columella and extra-columella have been already described (p. 251).

Cato does not speak of it,448 but it is mentioned by Varro, columella, and Virgil.