Definition of lamina

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Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..

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Pyroxene :: Pyroxene (n.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basa
Podophyllous :: Podophyllous (a.) Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminae, beneath a horse's hoof..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Quillaia Bark :: Quillaia bark () The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark..
Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..
Tangle :: Tangle (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp..
Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark..
Interlamination :: Interlamination (n.) The state of being interlaminated.
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Terma :: Terma (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain..
Claustrum :: Claustrum (n.) A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.
Sufflate :: Sufflaminate (v. t.) Hence, to stop; to impede..
Mannite :: Mannite (n.) A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron..
Interlaminated :: Interlaminated (a.) Placed between, or containing, laminae or plates..
Laminate :: Laminate (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
Scale :: Scale (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure..
Flake :: Flake (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish..
Tilestone :: Tilestone (n.) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
Laminable :: Laminable (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip..
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