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UK
/kˈɒləmnˌɑː/
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ADJECTIVE
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characterized by columns
columnar construction -
having the form of a column
columnar forms
a columnlike tree trunk
trees with columniform trunks
How To Use columnar In A Sentence
- In addition, the microstructure measurements of the film characterized by scanning electronic microscopy show the evident 'cauliflower-like surface morphology and columnar structure.
- Subcylindrical forms such as Stachyodes and Amphipora have been called dendroid or twiglike, and aluacerids have been called subcylindrical, cylindrical, or columnar.
- Coastal wetlands are also characteristic of this ecoregion, and near the first foothills of the western range there are some arid, rocky scrublands with abrupt relief, where columnar, candelabra and opuntia cacti typically grow. Sechura desert
- The reddish columnar mucosa is in sharp contrast to the pale-pink mucosa of the esophagus.
- The columnar or cuboidal biliary-type cells were pseudostratified and often contained mucin vacuoles.
- In the lamello-columnar phase obtained at low salt concentration, NCPs order into either a two-dimensional columnar hexagonal phase or into three-dimensional orthorhombic (quasi-hexagonal) crystals.
- Morphine is an amphoteric pentacyclic alkaloid that exists naturally in its levorotatory form as columnar colorless prisms.
- Each lobule consists of a number of acini, lined by columnar epithelial cells, opening into one duct, which joins with the ducts of other lobules outside the gland to form the single excretory duct. XI. Splanchnology. 3c. 7. The Bulbourethral Glands
- Baicalia is a branching columnar stromatolite forming in subtidal areas, where C. columnaris is a highly elongated, unbranched, columnar stromatolite living in quiet waters below the tidal zone. Archive 2008-08-01
- You may find yourself transported by the calm columnar beauty of Piero's Madonna del Parto, or by the heroic and somewhat abstract gran-deur of the figures who populate Poussin's Institution of the Seven Sacraments, or by the overwhelming kingliness of Titian's portrait of Charles V, there on the wall of the Prado. The God of Realism