Definitions for lamellas
lamellas
la·mel·la
Spelling: [luh-mel-uh]
IPA: /ləˈmɛl ə/
Lamellas is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 158 anagrams from letters in lamellas (aaelllms).
Definitions for lamellas
noun
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a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
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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.
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Mycology. gill1 (def 2).
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Building Trades. a member of wood, metal, or reinforced concrete, joined in a crisscross pattern with other lamellae to form a vault.
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Ophthalmology. a small disk of gelatin and glycerin mixed with a medicinal substance, used as a medicament for the eyes.
Origin of lamellas
1670-80; Latin lāmella, diminutive of lāmina lame2
Examples for lamellas
The head is also more or less connected by a thin plate of bone, the lamella, to another outgrowth, the processus longus.
In this way the organs developed between the two layers of the lamella obtain their final fixed position.