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columella
The central axis passes through the columella, the central pillar of the shell.
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The apex of the stem extends into the gleba to form a columella that reaches the top of the cap.
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Columella work is one of the earliest to detail trellis systems for getting vines off the ground.
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The columella was also used to make plummets or sinkers.
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If the columella is incorrectly cut, variable-degree numbness might result, which requires a months-long resolution.
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Columella, who wrote a twelve volume treatise on all aspects of Roman farming and knew viticulture, came from Baetica.
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The columella is smoothish to weakly ridged.
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A hermit crab carries the shell by grasping the central columella of the shell using claspers on the tip of its abdomen.
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The tectum and foot layer are separated by a region called the columella, which is composed of strengthening rods.
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- A small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal
- Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (Gades, Hispania Baetica, AD 4 - ca. AD 70) was a Roman writer. After a career in the army (he was tribune in Syria in 35), he took up farming. ...
- Columella (in plants), an axis of sterile tissue which passes through the center of the spore-case of mosses.
- The columella (meaning little column), is a central anatomical feature of a coiled snail shell or gastropod shell. It is often only clearly visible as a structure when the shell is broken, or sliced in half vertically, or in an X-ray.
- Columella is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.
- Ulmus 'Columella' is a Dutch cultivar raised by the Dorschkamp Research Institute in Wageningen from a selfed seedling of the hybrid 'Plantyn' sown in 1967. ...
- The Sadie Family is a South African producer of wine located in the Swartland region. Following the emergence of flagship wines Columella and Palladius, winemaker Eben Sadie has been described as an enfant terrible, South Africa's first certified celebrity winemaker, and by supporters as "one of ...
- Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape; The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils; In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear; In gastropods, the structure at the ...
- (pl. columellae, adj. columellate) (Iversen and Troels-Smith, 1950)
