Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as lamella.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See lamella.

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  • noun Alternative form of lamella.

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Examples

  • a fly's claw, but they forgot the drop of water which is indispensable; at other times it was the little lamel, and they pushed each other forward, and put the instrument out of order; then, when they saw only a haze, they blamed the optician.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

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