Lamellae

Word LAMELLAE
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Definitions and meanings of "Lamellae"

What do we mean by lamellae?

A thin, plate-like structure.

The gill of a mushroom.

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The word "lamellae" in example sentences

The newest versions of the adhesive, developed in 2009, have a two-layer system that mimics the gecko's flap like ridges, called lamellae, and setae. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These are then arranged in layers referred to as lamellae and bound together by cross linking glycans. ❋ JamesRi (2010)

As you can also see in the picture of V. moulinsiana on this page, the aperture of that species and those of most other Vertigos are rather cluttered by the various folds and lamellae inside, usually referred to as the teeth. ❋ AYDIN (2008)

Hence, after development, the photographic layer contained some twenty or more lamellae of silver grains with different periods for different colors in the image. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Paramastus spratti, which lacks any prominent lamellae or "teeth" in its aperture, has a straight columella. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

Into the direction from which the standing wave pattern had been generated, the scattered light fields having the same wavelength as the period of the lamellae will be in phase, interfere constructively, and together create ❋ Unknown (2005)

Certain elegant insects and butterflies have created such periodic lamellae without having been taught the optics of scattering or diffraction. ❋ Unknown (2005)

These whales have enormously muscular tongues, which press the water through the whalebone lamellae and thus, by a filtering process, retain the small food organisms. ❋ Unknown (2006)

After all, the shell is a hard solid structure that in most cases envelopes the entire snail and the aperture could be blocked by an epiphragm or by various folds and lamellae here is an example. ❋ AYDIN (2006)

The exact function of the folds and lamellae that commonly block the apertures of many species is actually not clear. ❋ AYDIN (2006)

Blue diamonds were created by boron or hydrogen trapped in the crystal matrix, green diamonds by natural radiation, yellow and brown diamonds by nitrogen, and pink diamonds by the presence of microscopic lamellae. ❋ Preston, Douglas (2005)

(‘Salvia Africana’), and various leguminosae, ixias, and large-flowering bulbs: the ‘Amaryllis toxicaria’ and ‘A. Brunsvigia multiflora’ (the former a poisonous bulb) yield in the decayed lamellae a soft, silky down, a good material for stuffing mattresses. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The precipice was perpendicular as a wall, its topmost height crowned with the same conglomerate of crystallized lamellae that had all along been so pronounced a feature. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Viewed even from this height, whence distance would do much to soften the general asperity, the surface nevertheless seemed to be bristling with its myriads of hexagonal lamellae, and to present difficulties which, to an ordinary pedestrian, would be insurmountable. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All these animals, as has been stated, have their hard and shelly part outside, where the skin is in other animals, and the fleshy part inside; and the belly is more or less provided with lamellae, or little flaps, and the female here deposits her spawn. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Each molar is composed of a number of plates (lamellae) that are formed inside the jaw. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The forward movement of a given molar results from the pressure exerted by newly formed lamellae behind the tooth. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The reconstructed fourth lower molar: only the anterior lamellae are cemented together ❋ Unknown (2002)

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