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- English Word Columbic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.
- English Word Columbier Definition See Colombier.
- English Word Columbiferous Definition Producing or containing columbium.
- English Word Columbin Definition A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.
- English Word Columbine Definition Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
- English Word Columbine Definition A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.
- English Word Columbine Definition The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.
- English Word Columbite Definition A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.
- English Word Columbium Definition A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.
- English Word Columbo Definition See Calumba.
- 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.