They had "the appearance of an upheaved, and subsequently ruptured mass of compact grey columnar Basalt, rising suddenly into needle-shaped pinnacles, which arc apparently ready for disintegration by the first disturbing cause, either gales of wind or earthquake".
So too was a columnar black knit with an enormous fluffy border by Alexander McQueen.
Temple plans, then, were house plans one-room buildings with columnar plans one-room
In general, the sauropods were distinguished by their huge size, long necks and tails, small heads, columnar legs, and heavy, solid limb bones.
platanoides), a handsome, dense, round-headed tree, has spectacular greenish-yellow flower clusters in early spring; many cultivated varieties are available with unusual leaf colour (red, maroon, bronze, or purple) and growth form (columnar, globular, or pyramidal).
In edge-milled coinage the same elements were employed in silver pieces, with the addition between the Pillars of an image of the two crowned hemispheres; this was called the moneda columnaria ("columnar coinage") and was minted until 1772.
Columnar black poplars are widely used in ornamental landscape plantings, particularly among the villas of Italy and elsewhere in southern Europe.
The resulting structure is one of adjacent columns of single crystals and is termed columnar ice.
The pistil, most often composed of an enlarged basal ovary, a columnar style, and distal stigma, is the ovule-producing organ of the flower.
Tropical tree ferns possess erect columnar trunks and large compound (divided) leaves more than 5 metres (about 16 feet) long.
Like the stegosaurs, however, their limbs were stout and columnar, the thighbone and upper arm were longer than the shin and forearm, and the metapodials were stubby.
