Definitions for laminas

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laminas lam·i·na

Spelling: [lam-uh-nuh]

IPA: /ˈlæm ə nə/

Laminas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in laminas (aailmns).

Definitions for laminas

noun

1. a thin plate, scale, or layer.
2. a layer or coat lying over another, as the plates of minerals or bones.
3. Botany. the blade or expanded portion of a leaf.
4. Geology. a layer of sediment or sedimentary rock only a small fraction of an inch (less than a centimeter) in thickness.

Origin of laminas

From Latin, dating back to 1650-60; See origin at lame²

Examples for laminas

Is not the lamina of the claw comparable to the wall of the hoof?

The corolla (if it may be so called) a fleshy, 3-lobed lamina.

They may be called (in a generalized sense) the co-ordinates of the lamina.

Moreover the sections should be cut from the basal third of the lamina, and not from the tip of the leaf.

The lamina is one half as long as the rest of the malleus (see figs. 1-3).

It split easily into lamina as fine as paper; was peculiarly elastic.

Laminiform: layer-like: having the appearance or made up of lamina.

This isthmus subsequently forms the lamina spiralis, separating the scala vestibuli from the scala tympani.

A leaf usually consists of two distinct parts—the petiole or stalk, and the lamina or blade.

When gold is beaten out so wide, the lamina must needs be very thin.