Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the form of a thin plate or lamella.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lamellar in form; having the shape of a lamella; lamellate in structure or arrangement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Thin and flat;
lamellar .
Etymologies
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Latin lamella ("thin plate") + -form
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Examples
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[VENUS CRIBRARI] Shell thick, medium size, slightly ventricose, furnished upon the outside by about twenty-five sharp lamelliform concentric and recurved ribs, crenulated upon the umbonal side; ribbed or ridged transversely on the ventral side, the ridges extending across to the adjacent rib; lunule crenulated.
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