Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having, composed of, or arranged in lamellae.
- adj. Resembling a lamella.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Formed of a lamella, or disposed in lamellæ); lamellar in structure or arrangement.
- Having lamellæ furnished with little laminæ).
Wiktionary
- adj. Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales.
- adj. Having at least some component segments being lengthened on one side and flattened into circles, making these segments look like a stack of dinner plates.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See
Illust. of antennæ.
Examples
“= Pith: = Pith in the black walnut is chambered (lamellate) in the older wood, but solid in the younger, growing wood.”
“Lamellicornia: those beetles in which the antennae terminate in a lamellate or leaf-like club.”
“Fissile - is: cleft or divided; as the wings in plume-moths: also used for lamellate.”
“The right edge of the peristome is lamellate and bears a clearly defined undulating membrane.”
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
“Fruiting surface usually on the under side and exposed toward the earth, lamellate, or prominently folded or veined.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“Hymenium covering the entire free surface or confined to one portion; smooth, gyrose, folded or lobed; or hymenium lamellate, porous, reticulate or toothed forms which are gelatinous and provided with continuous basidia may be sought here.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The lamellate antennae are often found in the Scarabidae, but we aren't happy with that ID either.”
“The individual in your photo on the far left most certainly has lamellate antennae which Comstock in our 1940 edition on page 41 defines as "the segments that compose the knob are extended on one side into broad plates.”
Lists
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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Arthropod Anatomy's Adjectives
suctorial, chitinous, setaceous, aristate, lamellate, serrate, flabellate, geniculate, plumose, pectinate, moniliform, stylate and 1 more...
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
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words of collect
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Adjectival Arcana
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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1. composed of or having lamellae.
2. flat; platelike. Jul 3, 2009