Lamella
//ləˈmɛl.ə// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A thin, plate-like structure.
"The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified."
- 2 thin plate wordnet
- 3 A thin, plate-like structure.; The gill of a mushroom.
- 4 a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones wordnet
- 5 any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus wordnet
Example
More examples"The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified."
Etymology
From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”), from lāmina (“thin plate”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).
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