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lamina

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Noun
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lam=i=na

CIDE DICTIONARY

laminan. [L. cf. Lamella.].
  •  A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lamina, n. (pl. laminae) a thin plate or scale, e.g. of bone, stratified rock, or vegetable tissue.

Derivative
laminose adj.
Etymology
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ROGET THESAURUS

lamina

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.


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