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lamella
| lamellar mixture
| lamellar (?) , a. [cf
| lamellary
| lamellate
| lamellate placentation
lamella
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lamella has 3 senses
- lamella(n = noun.plant) gill - any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus; Array is a kind of plant organ
- lamella(n = noun.body) Array - a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones; Array is a part of bone, os
- lamella(n = noun.artifact) Array - thin plate; Array is a kind of plate
is a kind of membrane, tissue layer
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lamella, n. (pl. lamellae)
1 a thin layer, membrane, scale, or platelike tissue or part, esp. in bone tissue.
2 Bot. a membranous fold in a chloroplast.
1 a thin layer, membrane, scale, or platelike tissue or part, esp. in bone tissue.
2 Bot. a membranous fold in a chloroplast.
Derivative
lamellar adj. lamellate adj. lamelliform adj. lamellose adj.
Etymology
L, dimin. of lamina: see LAMINA
ROGET THESAURUS
lamella
Layer
N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.
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