Definitions for lamellar

lamellar la·mel·lar

Spelling: [luh-mel-er, lam-uh-ler]
IPA: /ləˈmɛl ər, ˈlæm ə lər/

Lamellar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in lamellar (aaelllmr).

Definitions for lamellar

adjective

  1. referring to a lamella or lamellae.
  2. lamellate.
  3. noting a type of armor composed of small plates or lames laced together.
  4. Mathematics. conservative (def 7).

Origin of lamellar

First recorded in 1785-95; lamell(a) + -ar1

Examples for lamellar

Peristome with twenty to thirty long, lamellar, pointed feet, which are irregularly curved and convergent.

Peristome with twenty to thirty short, lamellar, truncate, vertical feet about half as long as the cephalis.

Like the upper sacs, each of these has two dark-brown, lamellar, glandular masses depending from its membranous visceral wall.

It is in colourless, inodorous, lamellar crystals, which have a slight pungent taste.

Diallage, an altered form of the mineral augite, with a lamellar structure, and a submetallic lustre on its planes of separation.

Six basal feet curved, divergent, lamellar, with a middle rib and dentate edges.

Peristome with twelve large, lanceolate, lamellar, convergent feet.

Peristome with six large lanceolate, vertical, lamellar feet, half as long as the shell.

It is easily broken, and presents a lamellar and radiated fracture; and is so hard that tempered steel cannot act upon it.

The class of Mollusca comprising the ordinary bivalves, characterised by the possession of lamellar gills.

Word Value for lamellar
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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