lamella
Valid in Scrabble
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- 9
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
/ləˈmɛl.ə/
(UK)
Definition of lamella
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A thin, plate-like structure.
“The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.”
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noun
-
A thin, plate-like structure.
“The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.”
- A thin, plate-like structure.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”), from lāmina (“thin plate”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).
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