Columella is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLUMELLA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the uvula
• an ossicle (small bone) of the middle ear of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
• the pillar around which the cochlea spirals.
• the axis of a spiral shell.
• the axis of the spore-producing body of some lower plants.
• central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
• 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.
• A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.
• A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.
• The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.
• The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.
• a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the central column or axis of a spiral univalve shell

Words related to COLUMELLA

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Words that contain COLUMELLA

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How to use COLUMELLA in a sentence

• To these fell to be added the time of rest in the middle of winter after the completion of the autumnal bowing, which Columella estimates at thirty days.
• Pliny and Columella attribute a Gallic origin to certain roots, and among them onions and parsnips, which the Romans cultivated in their gardens for use at their tables.
• In his suggestions for the allaying of a civil war among these winged people, he is quite beyond either Virgil or Columella or Mr.
• In the middle ear there is but one bone, the columella, forming the connecting link between the tympanum and the internal ear.
• From one of the specimens recovered from the mound sepulchre, the spire and columella had been removed, leaving a hollow utensil.
• Works on agriculture were also written by Columella, Palladius, and others, which serve to show the decline of that pursuit among the Romans.
• In the Andreaeales the columella does not extend to the upper end of the capsule, and the latter opens by a number of lateral slits.
• In the Polytrichaceae another air space separates the spore-sac from the columella.
• Several Roman writers, as Virgil, Columella and Varro, mention it.
• Columella sings the loves of Nature and her marriage with Heaven annually consummated at the sweet Spring-time.
• Marriage of heaven and earth sung by Virgil and Columella, 658-l.
• A single bleached specimen, agreeing with this description excepting in having five instead of three or four plaits on the columella, was brought up by the sounding line.
• Columella says that it was Cato who taught Agriculture to speak Latin.
• It has not the spontaneous originality of Cato, nor the detail and suave elegance of Columella.
• What sour land the Romans had they corrected with humus making barnyard manure, or the rich compost which Cato and Columella recommend.

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