Definitions for columnar

columnar co·lum·nar

Spelling: [kuh-luhm-ner]
IPA: /kəˈlʌm nər/

Columnar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in columnar (aclmnoru).

Definitions for columnar

adjective

  1. shaped like a column.
  2. characterized by columns:
  3. Also, columnal. printed, arranged, etc., in columns:

Origin of columnar

1720-30; Late Latin columnāris, equivalent to column(a) column + -āris -ar1

Examples for columnar

How are the axes of the prisms in a columnar igneous rock arranged?

There are two principal forms of ice crystal—the tabular and the columnar.

Tall, columnar, with a great dignity about him, had there been any one there to see.

They are irregular in shape, with a slight tendency to be columnar.

It is also called the commutation method and the columnar method.

Most commonly the cells are columnar, but other shapes are also found.

Many basalts are not columnar, and not a few columnar rocks are not basalts.

They are columnar, and are wedged in between the larger ones.

This mass exhibits a columnar structure similar to that of the Giant's Causeway.

The columnar structure is not peculiarly characteristic of basalt.

Word Value for columnar
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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