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Definitions for Lamella

[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] Mycology . gill1(def 2) .
[4] Building Trades . a member of wood, metal, or reinforced concrete, joined in a crisscross pattern with other lamellae to form a vault.
[5] Ophthalmology . a small disk of gelatin and glycerin mixed with a medicinal substance, used as a medicament for the eyes.
[6] a thin layer, plate, or membrane, esp any of the calcified layers of which bone is formed
[7] botany any of the spore-bearing gills of a mushroom any of the membranes in a chloroplast Also called: middle lamella a layer of pectin cementing together adjacent cells
[8] 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
[9] any thin sheet of material or thin layer in a fluid

Words related to Lamella

layer, slice, slab, leaf, scale, coat, plane, flake, foil, spangle, lamina, stratum, print, disc, plate, sheet, wafer, section, skin, disk

Words nearby Lamella

lame-duck session, lamebrain, lamech, lamed, lamell-, lamella, lamella roof, lamellar, lamellar bone, lamellar cataract, lamellar ichthyosis

Origin of Lamella

1670–80; < Latin lāmella, diminutive of lāmina lame2

Other words from Lamella

la•mel′ lar adj.

Word origin for Lamella

C17: New Latin, from Latin, diminutive of lāmina thin plate

Synonyms for Lamella

layer, slab, slice, coat, disc, flake, foil, lamina, leaf, plane, print, scale, spangle, stratum