Word.ws English Dictionary

lamellicorn

lamellicorn adjective: having a group of flat lamellae on the end.

Adjective

lamellicorn (not comparable)

  1. Having a group of flat lamellae on the end.
  2. Having such antennae.

Noun

lamellicorn (plural lamellicorns)

  1. (obsolete) A scarabaeid beetle with such antennae, in the obsolete taxon Lamellicornia.

Forms of lamellicorn

plurallamellicorns

Origin of lamellicorn

From French lamellicorne, from Latin lamella (“a thin plate”) + cornu (“a horn”).

Questions about lamellicorn

What does lamellicorn mean?
Lamellicorn means having a group of flat lamellae on the end.
What part of speech is lamellicorn?
Lamellicorn can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near lamellicorn in the dictionary

  1. lamellibrachids
  2. lamellibranch
  3. lamellibranchiate
  4. lamellibranchiates
  5. lamellibranchs
  6. lamellicorn
  7. lamellicorns
  8. lamelliferous
  9. lamelliform
  10. Lamellion
  11. lamellipedian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lamellicorn (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lamellicorn.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lamellicorn. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.