Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
columelliform . - Pertaining to a columella, in any sense of that word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology, anatomy Of or pertaining to a
columella .
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Examples
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The red arrow in the right-hand picture is pointing at the columellar tooth.
Ventridens suppressus AYDIN 2009
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During the maturation of the snail, the outer-basal tooth is resorbed; the adult snails retain only the columellar.
Ventridens suppressus AYDIN 2009
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During the maturation of the snail, the outer-basal tooth is resorbed; the adult snails retain only the columellar.
Archive 2009-07-01 AYDIN 2009
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The red arrow in the right-hand picture is pointing at the columellar tooth.
Archive 2009-07-01 AYDIN 2009
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The drawing below, showing the branches of the columellar muscle of Helix pomatia, is from the last volume of Libbie Hyman's incomplete series The Invertebrates, published in 1967 shortly before she died.
Tangled innards of a snail or how we know the intelligent designer was a klutz AYDIN 2008
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The drawing below, showing the branches of the columellar muscle of Helix pomatia, is from the last volume of Libbie Hyman's incomplete series The Invertebrates, published in 1967 shortly before she died.
Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008
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Quoting from Hyman [italics mine]:In [Helix pomatia] the [columellar] muscle, after leaving its origin on the columella, forks into right and left parts, of which the smaller right part sends a branch into each tentacle on that side and then loses itself in the tissues of the foot.
Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008
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Quoting from Hyman [italics mine]:In [Helix pomatia] the [columellar] muscle, after leaving its origin on the columella, forks into right and left parts, of which the smaller right part sends a branch into each tentacle on that side and then loses itself in the tissues of the foot.
Tangled innards of a snail or how we know the intelligent designer was a klutz AYDIN 2008
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Snails can do that without any trouble because their bodies are attached to their shells by only one muscle, the columellar, that twists around the axis of coiling, the columella.
Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006
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Somehow, it survived, reattached its columellar muscle and continued to grow, building its own shell.
Archive 2006-03-01 AYDIN 2006
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