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lamella

[luh-mel-uh] / ləˈmɛl ə /




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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

These all seem to be products of hydrolysis of a mother substance known as "pectose," which constitutes the middle lamella of unripe fruit, etc.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

Found the area abundantly supplied with palmellæ, Gemiasma rubra, verdans, and Protuberans lamella, even where there was no incrustation or green mould.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

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

The sexes are distinct, and the generative opening is on the side of the body above the edge of the inner lamella of the inner gill.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" 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

Along the lamellae are small openings called lacunae.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Lacunae are wide spaces in the rings between the lamellae.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The grey matter forms the exterior or cortex of the lamellae, and passes from one to the other across the bottoms of the several fissures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various




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