lamella
Americannoun
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a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
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Botany.
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an erect scale or blade inserted at the junction of the claw and limb in some corollas and forming a part of their corona or crown.
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(in mosses) a thin sheet of cells standing up along the midrib of a leaf.
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Mycology. gill.
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Building Trades. a member of wood, metal, or reinforced concrete, joined in a crisscross pattern with other lamellae to form a vault.
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Ophthalmology. a small disk of gelatin and glycerin mixed with a medicinal substance, used as a medicament for the eyes.
noun
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a thin layer, plate, or membrane, esp any of the calcified layers of which bone is formed
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botany
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any of the spore-bearing gills of a mushroom
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any of the membranes in a chloroplast
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Also called: middle lamella. a layer of pectin cementing together adjacent cells
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one of a number of timber, metal, or concrete members connected along a pattern of intersecting diagonal lines to form a framed vaulted roof structure
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any thin sheet of material or thin layer in a fluid
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Origin of lamella
1670–80; < Latin lāmella, diminutive of lāmina lame 2
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Its design, by Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga, features a brick lamella facade that calls to mind an old radiator.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2023
Etym., lamella, the diminutive of lamina, plate, and fero, to bear.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Found the area abundantly supplied with palmellæ, Gemiasma rubra, verdans, and Protuberans lamella, even where there was no incrustation or green mould.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
These disjunctors serve as points of application for the elastic push of the swelling spore-ends, and as the connecting outer lamella of cell-wall suddenly gives way, the spores are jerked asunder.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Some of the earth near the site of the exposure referred to in Observation 31, was examined and found to contain abundantly the Gemiasma verdans, rubra, Protuberans lamella, confirmed by three more observations.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
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