lamelliform
41Shapes and Resemblance — This assortment of 370 adjectives all refer in some way to the form or shape of things. Some are more geometrically descriptive than others, while a number of terms refer to animal forms or shapes of obscure objects. Certain adjectives for shapes …
42lamella — [lə mɛlə] noun (plural lamellae li:) 1》 a thin layer, membrane, or plate of tissue, especially in bone. 2》 Botany a membranous fold in a chloroplast. Derivatives lamellar adjective lamellate adjective lamelliform …
43scaly — a. 1. Flaky, lamelliform, squamous. 2. Mean, scurvy, stingy, contemptible, paltry, scald …
44tabular — a. 1. Of a table. 2. Flat, plane. 3. Laminated, lamellar, lamelliform, foliated, scaly, flaky …
45scaly — adjective 1) the dragon s scaly hide Syn: technical squamous, squamate, squamose, lamellate, lamellar, lamelliform, lamellose 2) scaly patches of dead skin Syn: flaky, dry, flaking, scurfy, peeling …
46laminated — adj 1. lamellate, lamelliform, lamellose, laminiferous, lamellar; stratified, stratiform, layered; scaly, flaky, scabby, scurfy, squamous, squamoid, squamate, crusty. 2. membranous, covered, overlaid, coated, plated; carapaced, carapacial,… …
47lamelli- — aff. a combining form representing lamella: lamelliform[/ex] …
48lamellate — [lam′ə lāt΄, lə mel′āt΄] adj. [ModL lamellatus] 1. having, consisting of, arranged in, or resembling a lamella or lamellae 2. LAMELLIFORM: Also lamellated lamellation n …
49lamelli- — [lə mel′i, ləmel′ə] combining form of, like, or consisting of a lamella or lamellae [lamelliform] …
50lamella — n. (pl. lamellae) 1 a thin layer, membrane, scale, or platelike tissue or part, esp. in bone tissue. 2 Bot. a membranous fold in a chloroplast. Derivatives: lamellar adj. lamellate adj. lamelliform adj. lamellose adj. Etymology: L, dimin. of… …
