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
If a thin cellulose membrane is interposed between the lamellae, the hyphae nevertheless turn chemotropically from the one lamella to the other and pierce the cellulose membrane in the process.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
These disjunctors serve as points of application for the elastic push of the swelling spore-ends, and as the connecting outer lamella of cell-wall suddenly gives way, the spores are jerked asunder.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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
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
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
The lamellae surrounding the Haversian canal resemble tree rings.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Lacunae are wide spaces in the rings between the lamellae.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
It carries no tentacles, but is terminated by imbricated lamellae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
