Definition of Columniform

1. Adjective. Having the form of a column. "A columnlike tree trunk"

Exact synonyms: Columnar, Columnlike
Similar to: Columned
Derivative terms: Column

Definition of Columniform

1. Adjective. Having the form of a column ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Columniform

columnal
columnar
columnar cell
columnar epithelial cell
columnar epithelium
columnar layer
columnarity
columnated
columnea
columneas
columned
columnella
columniation
columniations
columniferous
columniform (current term)
columnist
columnistic
columnists
columnize
columnized
columnizes
columnizing
columnless
columnlike
columns
coluracetam
colure
colures
colusite

Literary usage of Columniform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rocky Mountain Medical Times (1882)
"He may have enlargement of the involuntary, internal columniform fibres of the bladder. Where these muscles are enlarged there is a sort of hydraulic ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"This was so great in some portions of the organ as to resemble the retiform arrangement existing in columniform bladder. From the appearance and obvious ..."

3. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1808)
"... which I presume to have been the inferior part of this body, a closely reticulated columniform body, which, after having proceeded less than an inch, ..."

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