Lamella (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural la·mel·lae [luh-mel-ee], /ləˈmɛl i/, la·mel·las.
  1. a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
  2. Botany.
    • 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.
    • (in mosses) a thin sheet of cells standing up along the midrib of a leaf.
  3. gill1 (def. 2).
  4. a member of wood, metal, or reinforced concrete, joined in a crisscross pattern with other lamellae to form a vault.
  5. a small disk of gelatin and glycerin mixed with a medicinal substance, used as a medicament for the eyes.
noun plural -lae (-liː) or -las
  1. a thin layer, plate, or membrane, esp any of the calcified layers of which bone is formed
  2. botany
    • any of the spore-bearing gills of a mushroom
    • any of the membranes in a chloroplast
    • a layer of pectin cementing together adjacent cells
  3. 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
  4. any thin sheet of material or thin layer in a fluid
Lamella (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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