columnar en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kəˈlʌm.nəɹ/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Latin columnāris. By surface analysis, column + -ar.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Having the shape of a column.
- (not-comparable) Constructed with columns.
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide (column-shaped).
where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked
1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
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Deriveds
subcolumnar · tricolumnar · intracolumnar · supercolumnar · squamocolumnar · extracolumnar · columnarity · multicolumnar · circumcolumnar · columnarize · transcolumnar · half columnar · bicolumnar · intercolumnar · columnarly · pseudocolumnar · nanocolumnar · supracolumnar · noncolumnar · semicolumnar · microcolumnar · stratified columnar epithelium
Translations (15)
fr colonnaire (Having the shape of a column) · el κιονοειδής (Having the shape of a column) · cy pilerog (Having the shape of a column) · sv pelarformig (Having the shape of a column) · hu oszlopos (Having the shape of a column) · pl kolumnowy (Constructed with column) · es columnar (Having the shape of a column) · es cilíndrico (Having the shape of a column) · ru столбчатый (Constructed with column) · de säulenförmig (Having the shape of a column) · ru колонный (Having the shape of a column) · es columnario (Having the shape of a column) · cy colofnog (Having the shape of a column) · grc κιονοειδής (Having the shape of a column) · pl kolumnowy (Having the shape of a column)