columnar

Having the shape of a column.

Adjective

  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 marked - 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the...

    Coordinate Terms: cuboidal

Origin

From Latin columnāris. By surface analysis, column + -ar.

Derived

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