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COLUMELLA (columellae)
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Irregular inflected form: columellae
Dictionary entry overview: What does columella mean?
• COLUMELLA (noun)
The noun COLUMELLA has 1 sense:
1. a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal
Familiarity information: COLUMELLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("columella" is a kind of...):
column; pillar; tower (anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower)
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