1) Column 2) Pillar 3) Rod or axis 4) Tower
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Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (ə; 4 – c. 70 AD) is the most important writer on agriculture of the Roman empire. Little is known of his life. He was probably born in Gades, Hispania Baetica (modern Cádiz), possibly of Roman parents. After a career in the army (he was tribune in Syria in 35), he took up farming. His De Re Rustica in twelve ...
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[auditory system] In the auditory system, the columella is a bone that contributes to hearing in amphibians, reptiles and birds, corresponding to the stapes in mammals. In humans, artificially made columellas, such as made as autografts from cortical bone, are used as replacements for the stapes in ear surgery to correct for, for example, h...
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[botany] Columella (in plants), an axis of sterile tissue which passes through the center of the spore-case of mosses. ...
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[gastropod] The columella (meaning little column) or (in older texts) `pillar`, is a central anatomical feature of a coiled snail shell, a gastropod shell. The columella is often only clearly visible as a structure when the shell is broken, or sliced in half vertically, or viewed as an X-ray image. The columella runs from the apex of the sh...
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[genus] clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora Columella is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. Species within the genus Columella include: ...
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in flowering plants, the central axis of the cone or fruit, e.g. in Callitris.
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fleshy part of nose that separates nostrils
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• (n.) The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals. • (n.) The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells. • (n.) A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses. • (n.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear...
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(from the article `amphibian`) ...auditory system is also specially adapted. One modification is the papilla amphibiorum, which is a patch of neuroepithelium that can receive ...
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(from the article `bryophyte`) ...not complex; jacket of sporangium often with stomata; sporangium usually opening by apical cap (operculum); peristome teeth usually surrounding ...
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(from the article `gastropod`) The typical snail has a calcareous shell coiled in a spiral pattern around a central axis called the columella. Generally, the coils, or whorls, ...
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The central axis of a moss capsule, sometimes applied to the central axis of fruits and cones. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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(kol″u-mel´ә) pl. columel´lae Latin word meaning little column. columella nasi the fleshy external termination of the septum of the nose.
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Col`u·mel'la noun [ Latin , dim. of
columen column. See
Column .]
1. (Botany) (a) 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.
(b) A columnlike axis in the capsules of mos...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kol′ū-mel′ă, -mel′ē Definitions: 1. A column, or a small column. 2. In fungi, a sterile invagination of a sporangium, as in Zygomycetes. Synonyms: columnella
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A small column of tissue which runs up through the center of a spore capsule. It is present in hornworts, mosses, and some rhyniophytes.
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A small column of tissue which runs up through the center of a spore capsule. It is present in hornworts, mosses, and some rhyniophytes.
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columella 1. A tiny bone in the middle ear of all land vertebrates that transmits sound waves from the eardrum to the inner ear and corresponds to the stapes in mammals. The stapes is a small stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear of mammals, the innermost of the three small bones that transmit vibration to the inner ear. 2. A small column (or str...
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Small, thin bone extending across the middle ear of birds, attached at one end to the inner surface of the eardrum and at the other end to the vestibular window of the inner ear; it transmits sound waves from the eardrum to the fluid-filled cochlea.
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A small bone which helps certain animals to hear
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noun a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal
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A small bone which helps certain animals to hear
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