Definition of lamella

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Lamella (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed..

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Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..
Spathic :: Spathic (a.) Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.
Bilamellate :: Bilamellate (a.) Alt. of Bilamellate.
Interlamellar :: Interlamellar (a.) Alt. of Interlamina.
Lamellated :: Lamellated (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae..
Splanchno-skeleton :: Splanchnopleure (n.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure..
Lamellirostres :: Lamellirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate..
Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..
Lamellirostral :: Lamellirostral (a.) Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese..
Diaspore :: Diaspore (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe..
Lamelliferous :: Lamelliferous (a.) Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated..
Bilamellated :: Bilamellated (a.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers..
Lamel :: Lamel (n.) See Lamella.
Phyllobranchia :: Phyllobranchia (n.) A crustacean gill composed of lamellae.
Lamellas :: Lamellas (pl. ) of Lamell.
Parting :: Parting (n.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae..
Lamellate :: Lamellate (a.) Alt. of Lamellate.
Lamellary :: Lamellary (a.) Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar.
Lamellicorn :: Lamellicorn (a.) Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.
Cleavelandite :: Cleavelandite (n.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure..
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