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columella
[ kol-yuh-mel-uh ]
noun
- any of various small, columnlike structures of animals or plants; rod or axis.
- Mycology. a small central column of sterile tissue within the sporangium of certain fungi, liverworts, and mosses.
- a small bone in the ear of amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
columella
/ 藢办蓲濒箩蕣藞尘蓻濒蓹 /
noun
- biology
- the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- any similar columnar structure
- Also calledcolumella auris藞蓴藧r瑟s a small rodlike bone in the middle ear of frogs, reptiles, and birds that transmits sound to the inner ear: homologous to the mammalian stapes
Derived Forms
- 藢肠辞濒耻藞尘别濒濒补谤, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 肠辞濒顎卽路尘别濒顎僱补谤 adjective
- 肠辞濒路耻路尘别濒路濒补迟别 [kol-y, uh, -, mel, -it, -eyt], adjective
- 辫辞蝉迟顎卌辞濒路耻路尘别濒顎僱补谤 adjective
- pseu顎卍o路肠辞濒顎卽路尘别濒顎僱补谤 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of columella1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of columella1
Example Sentences
A. effusa may be distinguished from all others by the columella being nearly obsolete; this part existing only in the two terminal whorls of the spire.
A. Shell cinereous-white, with two narrow brown bands, spire elongated, straight; volutions seven, slightly ventricose, inner lip rosy, base of the columella straight, entire, aperture ovate-oblong.
Thallus without epidermis; capsule with a columella, short-pedicelled or sessile on the thallus.
The delicate, spindle-shaped columellae lie ventral to the tegmen tympani and squamosals, are spatulate distally, and have a broad basal attachment to the auditory region.
It is the cartilagenous part of the columella that connects with the external sound detecting mechanism.
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