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lamella

UK/ləˈmɛl.ə/

lamella noun: a thin, plate-like structure.

Noun

lamella (plural lamellas or lamellae)

  1. 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.1943, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, John West Wells, Revision of the Suborders Families, and Genera of the Scleractinia, page 32
    Synonyms:
    lame, lamina
    1. The gill of a mushroom.

lamella meaning in Tamil and Telugu

lamella in Tamil

மெல்லிய தகடு தடுப்பு, நுண்இழை, மென்றட்டு, இமைச் சொருகு மருந்துப் பட்டை, எலும்புத்தகடு, எலும்புப்படலம்

lamella in Telugu

lamella
పత్రకము patrakamu

Examples of lamella in a sentence

  • The chorion has a predominantly lamellar structure, the lamellae being two-dimensional networks of protein fibrils.
  • Internal morphology: Dental lamellae short, slightly recurved and close to the valve sides.
  • Pileus purplish red; lamellae pale buff becoming miniatous on drying, broad in front, narrow behind, distant, equal.

All 16 example sentences with lamella

Synonyms of lamella

Forms of lamella

plurallamellas
plurallamellae

Origin of lamella

From Latin lāmella (“small, thin plate of metal”), from lāmina (“thin plate”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).

Words formed from lamella

Words that rhyme with lamella

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Questions about lamella

What does lamella mean?
Lamella means a thin, plate-like structure.
What is lamella in Tamil?
Lamella in Tamil is மெல்லிய தகடு தடுப்பு, நுண்இழை, மென்றட்டு. See Lamella meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lamella?
Lamella is a noun.
How do you pronounce lamella?
Lamella is pronounced /ləˈmɛl.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of lamella?
The plural of lamella is lamellas.

Words near lamella in the dictionary

  1. lameduck
  2. lameducks
  3. lamehead
  4. lameheads
  5. lamel
  6. lamella
  7. lamellae
  8. lamellaphone
  9. lamellaphones
  10. lamellar
  11. lamellar corpuscle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lamella (page history and authors); lamella (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పత్రకము (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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