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- English Word Columella Definition 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.
- English Word Columella Definition A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.
- English Word Columella Definition 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.
- English Word Columella Definition The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.
- English Word Columella Definition The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.
- English Word Columelliform Definition Shaped like a little column, or columella.
- English Word Column Definition A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.
- English Word Column Definition Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.
- English Word Column Definition A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
- English Word Column Definition A small army.
- English Word Column Definition A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.
- English Word Column Definition A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
- English Word Column Definition A perpendicular line of figures.
- English Word Column Definition The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
- English Word Columnar Definition Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
- English Word Columnarity Definition The state or quality of being columnar.
- English Word Columnated Definition Having columns; as, columnated temples.
- English Word Columned Definition Having columns.
- English Word Columniation Definition The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.
- English Word Colure Definition One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.
- English Word Colures Definition of Colure
- English Word Coly Definition Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.
- English Word Colza Definition A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.
- English Word Com- Definition A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.
- English Word Coma Definition A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
- English Word Coma Definition The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
- English Word Coma Definition A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
- English Word Comanches Definition A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.
- English Word Comart Definition A covenant.
- English Word Comate Definition Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.