Columba
pronunciation
How to pronounce Columba in British English:
UK [kəˈlʌmbə]
How to pronounce Columba in American English:
US [kəˈlʌmbə]
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- Noun:
- a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum
- type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons
Word Origin
Example
- 1. St. columba 's was a strict disciplinarian school run by irish brothers .
- 2. Urban feral pigeons ( columba livia ) as a source for air - and waterborne contamination with enterocytozoon bieneusi spores .
- 3. A similar passion for the written word-the process , the product and the effect on the reader-can be detected in western scribes like columba of iona and bede of northumbria .
- 4. The submicroscopic structures of various blood cells of tilaria nilotica , rana tigrina , columba livia domestica and oryctolagus cuniculus domestica were studied under the transmission electron microscope .