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Lamin [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

LAM'IN ,

Lamin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; applied to the plates of minerals, bones, etc.

2. A bone, or part of a bone, resembling a thin plate, such as the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.

3. The lap of the ear.

4. The border, or the upper, broad or spreading part of the petal, in a polypetalous corol.

Lamina [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

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

Laminability [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being laminable.

Laminable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Capable of being formed into thin plates.

Laminable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.

Laminae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Laminal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

Laminar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In plates; consisting of thin plates or layers.

Laminar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Laminal

Laminaria [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Laminarian [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.

Laminarite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A broad-leafed fossil alga.

Laminary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Laminar.

Laminas [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Laminate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

LAM'INATE ,

Laminate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another.

Laminate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Laminate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To separate into laminae.

Laminate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.

2. To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.

Laminated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Laminate.

Laminated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Laminate

Laminating [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

Laminating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Laminate

Lamination [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

Laming [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Laminiferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a structure consisting of laminae, or thin layers.

Laminiplantar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

Laminitis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.