columella (disambiguation) columella (disambiguation) columella (4–c. 70) was a roman writer. look up columella in wiktionary, the free dictionary. columella, meaning little column, may also refer to: biology columella (auditory system), a part of the auditory system of amphibians, reptiles and birds columella (botany), an axis of sterile tissue which passes through the center of the spore-case of mosses and a cellular layer near the tip of a plant's root cap columella (gastropod), an anatomical feature of a coiled snail or gastropod shell columella (genus), a genus of land gastropods in the family vertiginidae columella (plant), a cultivar of dutch elm columella nasi, the fleshy external end of the nasal septum in corals, the central axis structure of a corallite formed by the inner ends of the septa other uses columella (wine), a wine label by south african producer the sadie family columella; or, the distressed anchoret, a 1779 novel by richard graves