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columnar en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈlʌm.nəɹ/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin columnāris. By surface analysis, column + -ar.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having the shape of a column.
  2. (not-comparable) Constructed with columns.
  3. (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 […] :

Coordinates

cuboidal

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)