columnar
adjUS /kəˈlʌm.nəɹ/
Etymology From Latin columnāris. By surface analysis, column + -ar.
1
Having the shape of a column.
2
Constructed with columns.
3
Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide (column-shaped).
- where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
- Derived terms
- bicolumnar, circumcolumnar, columnarity, columnarize, columnarly, extracolumnar, half columnar, intercolumnar, intracolumnar, microcolumnar, multicolumnar, nanocolumnar, noncolumnar, pseudocolumnar, semicolumnar, squamocolumnar, stratified columnar epithelium, subcolumnar, supercolumnar, supracolumnar, transcolumnar, tricolumnar