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Lamella, Lamellae  n.  (pl. L. lamellae, E. lamellas)  A thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.






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"Lamella" Quotes from Famous Books



... natural habitat the palmellae described as the Gemiasma rubra, Gemiasma verdans, Gemiasma plumba, Gemiasma alba, Protuberans lamella. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various

... sifters. I hope that I may not be misconstrued into saying that the progenitors of whales did actually possess mouths lamellated like the beak of a duck. I wish only to show that this is not incredible, and that the immense plates of baleen in the Greenland whale might have been developed from such lamellae by finely graduated steps, each of service to ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Lamella" :   bone, membrane, os, tissue layer, plant organ, plate, gill



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