Definitions for lamella

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lamella la·mel·la

Spelling: [luh-mel-uh]

IPA: /ləˈmɛl ə/

Lamella is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in lamella (aaelllm).

Definitions for lamella

noun

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.

Origin of lamella

1670-80; Latin lāmella, diminutive of lāmina lame²

Examples for lamella

In this way the organs developed between the two layers of the lamella obtain their final fixed position.

The head is also more or less connected by a thin plate of bone, the lamella, to another outgrowth, the processus longus.