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Definition of Columellar
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columellar
Literary usage of Columellar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with by A. M. Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt (1838)
"... plaits on the anterior part of the columellar edge ; the exterior edge thin.
... and by not having teeth on the columellar lip ; the right lip is ..."
2. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1852)
"... is susceptible of many variations, too minute and particular to be described
in this part of the work. columellar Lips, Fig. 60, Melo, obliquely plaited ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1849)
"... about thirty on the lip and twenty on the columellar side, where they traverse
the columellar groove and serrate its nearly straight inner edge; ..."
4. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"... columella tortuous, plicate above; peristome widely reflected ; the lips united
by a thin callus; columellar lip dilated, reflected. ..."
5. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1884)
"... columella tortuous, plicate above ; peristome widely reflected ; the lips
united by a thin callus ; columellar lip dilated, reflected. ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The columellar muscle is horseshoe-shaped and lies just internal to the pallial
muscle from which it is separated by no sharp boundary; its fibers run from ..."
7. Catalogue of Auriculidae, Proserpinidae, and Truncatellidae in the by Ludwig Georg Karl Píeiffer (1857)
"middle-sized, rather compressed parietal plait below the middle; columellar plait
stronger, obliquely produced to the margin; peristome thin; right margin ..."
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