lamella
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Its design, by Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga, features a brick lamella facade that calls to mind an old radiator.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
The hyphae will also dissolve their way through a lamella of collodion, paraffin, parchment paper, elder-pith, or even cork or the wing of a fly, to do which it must excrete very different enzymes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Along the sutural border of the elytron, the chitinous lamella forms a tubular space within which are numerous glands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Etym., lamella, the diminutive of lamina, plate, and fero, to bear.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Gills or branchiae may be developed by parts of an appendage becoming thin-walled and vascular and either expanded into a thin lamella or ramified.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
But the disk couldn’t suction with individual lamellae, making it vulnerable to falling off.
From Science Magazine ● May 19, 2022
Remoras use lamellae, slatlike bones encased in soft tissue, and spinules, rows of hard teethlike tissue to create tight suction.
From Science Magazine ● May 19, 2022
Potassium feldspar does not exhibit twinning or striations but may show linear features called exsolution lamellae, also known as perthitic lineation or simply perthite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The bone is deposited along concentric rings called lamellae.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Branchiae.—The single pair of branchiae are placed symmetrically right and left of the anus, and each has the structure of a ctenidium bearing a row of lamellae on each side as in the Polyplacophora.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
