lamella

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: la=mel=la

CIDE DICTIONARY

lamella, n. [L. lamella, dim. of lamina plate, leaf, layer: cf. F. lamelle. Cf. Lamina, Omelet.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lamella, n. (pl. lamellae)
1 a thin layer, membrane, scale, or platelike tissue or part, esp. in bone tissue.
2 Bot. a membranous fold in a chloroplast.

Derivative

lamellar adj. lamellate adj. lamelliform adj. lamellose adj.

Etymology

L, dimin. of lamina: see LAMINA

ROGET THESAURUS

lamella

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.