LAMINA

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

2.
n.

The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. Gray.

3.
n.

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


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