Definition of Lamellae

1. Noun. (plural of lamella) ¹

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Definition of Lamellae

1. lamella [n] - See also: lamella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamellae

lame brain
lame duck
lame ducks
lame joke
lame jokes
lamebrain
lamebrained
lamebrains
lamed
lamedh
lamedhs
lameds
lamel
lamella
lamella of bone
lamellae (current term)
lamellar
lamellar bone
lamellar cataract
lamellar face
lamellar faces
lamellar granule
lamellar keratoplasty
lamellar mixture
lamellar phase
lamellar trama
lamellary
lamellas
lamellate

Literary usage of Lamellae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"right when he said in regard to the origin of the lamellae of C. lagopus that they arise as new, free vegetation points on the under surface of the pileus ..."

2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... lamellae atlin«th becoming a blur.U juice, or dusty smut; ... na- (Membranaceous, almost wholly becoming a black juice: lamellae very Ihin. ..."

3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The cell-rows or lamellae stand so close together that they hold water ... We find the most beautifully developed lamellae upon the broad nerves of the ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"Margin of pileus incurved when young 34. 34. lamellae decurrent 59. ... lamellae easily separable from the pileus 48. lamellae concrete with the pileus 49. ..."

5. Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: An Aid to the by Harry Rosenbusch (1889)
"If the section be rotated between crossed nicols, then one set of lamellae will become dark for a particular inclination of the boundary lines between the ..."

6. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"lamellae normally toothed on their edges ; stem central, eccentric or lateral. ... lamellae free from the stem. PLUTEUS. lamellae adnate or sinuate ..."

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