lamelliform

[ luh-mel-uh-fawrm ]

adjective

1. shaped like a lamella; platelike; scalelike.

lamelliform

/ ləˈmɛlɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

1. shaped like a lamella; platelike

   lamelliform antennae

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamelliform¹

First recorded in 1810–20; lamelli- + -form

Example Sentences

Mr. Graves brought me a specimen of lamelliform granite attached to a mass of greenstone.

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A little islet, off Dighton Cove, is composed of granite, of a lamelliform structure.

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In these, as in Patella, the typical ctenidia are aborted, and the branchial function is assumed by close-set lamelliform processes arranged in a series beneath the mantle-skirt on either side of the foot.

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Through the great lamelliform bee-hive it sent its waking clamour, the signal for rising to the new day's tasks.

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EU-ARACHNIDA.—These start from highly developed and specialized aquatic branchiferous forms, exhibiting a prosoma with six pediform pairs of appendages, an intermediate prae-genital somite, a mesosoma of six somites bearing lamelliform pairs of appendages, and a metasoma of six somites devoid of appendages, and the last provided with a post-anal spine.

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