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lamella
[ luh-mel-uh ]
noun
- a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
- 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.
- Mycology. gill 1( def 2 ).
- Building Trades. a member of wood, metal, or reinforced concrete, joined in a crisscross pattern with other lamellae to form a vault.
- Ophthalmology. a small disk of gelatin and glycerin mixed with a medicinal substance, used as a medicament for the eyes.
lamella
/ 藢l忙m蓹藞l蓲s瑟t瑟; -l瑟t; -l瑟t; l蓹藞m蓻l蓹蕣s; 藞l忙m瑟藢le瑟t; 藞l忙m瑟藢l蓹蕣s; l蓹藞m蓻l蓹; l蓹藞m蓻le瑟t /
noun
- a thin layer, plate, or membrane, esp any of the calcified layers of which bone is formed
- botany
- any of the spore-bearing gills of a mushroom
- any of the membranes in a chloroplast
- Also calledmiddle lamella a layer of pectin cementing together adjacent cells
- one of a number of timber, metal, or concrete members connected along a pattern of intersecting diagonal lines to form a framed vaulted roof structure
- any thin sheet of material or thin layer in a fluid
Derived Forms
- lamellosity, noun
- 藢濒补尘别濒藞濒补迟颈辞苍, noun
- 濒补藞尘别濒濒补谤, adjective
- 藞濒补尘别濒藢濒补迟别诲, adjective
- 濒补藞尘别濒濒补谤ly, adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of lamella1
Example Sentences
But the disk couldn鈥檛 suction with individual lamellae, making it vulnerable to falling off.
It has no sticky lamellae on its feet for wall climbing, it has blinking eyelids, it tends to be more docile around humans.
Then liquid drains from the thin membranes, known as lamellae, that encase the individual bubbles until one of those lamellae thins too much to support the bubble.
The disc is supported by a complex series of muscles and bones that create suction by erecting and depressing the lamellae.
Gills or branchiae may be developed by parts of an appendage becoming thin-walled and vascular and either expanded into a thin lamella or ramified.
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