Definition of lamina

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Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather..

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Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae..
Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark..
Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..
Scale :: Scale (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure..
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores..
Squarrous :: Squarroso-dentate (a.) Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.
Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..
Diallage :: Diallage (n.) A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks..
Laminated :: Laminated (imp. & p. p.) of Laminat.
Micaceous :: Micaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica..
Perthite :: Perthite (n.) A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors..
Interlaminar :: Interlaminar (a.) Between lammellae or laminae; as, interlamellar spaces..
Bilaminate :: Bilaminate (a.) Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates..
Laminas :: Laminas (pl. ) of Lamin.
Interlamination :: Interlamination (n.) The state of being interlaminated.
Epiblast :: Epiblast (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination..
Laminating :: Laminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laminat.
Laminaria :: Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp..
Pyroxene :: Pyroxene (n.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90ยก, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basa
Scaly :: Scaly (a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers..
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