lamellose, a. Sci.
(ləˈmɛləʊs)
[f. lamella + -ose.]
Arranged in or composed of lamellæ.
| 1752 Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 418 The beak of the Anas is convex..the whole verge is furnished with transverse, lamellose teeth. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 571 Glomerate or lamellose. 1854 Woodward Mollusca ii. 237 Upper valve limpet-like, smooth or concentrically lamellose. 1875 Blake Zool. 266 The branchiæ are at the sides of the body,..mostly lamellose. |
b. Comb. lamellose- (also quasi-L. lamelloso-) dentate a., having lamelliform teeth, as the bill of a duck; lamellose-stellate a., having lamellæ arranged in star-shaped groups.
| 1855 Mayne Expos. Lex., Lamellosodentatus..lamelloso-dentate. 1856–8 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 88 Polypary conical, with base acuminate, cell single, terminal, lamellose-stellate. Ibid. II. 383 Bill with margins lamellose-dentate internally. |