noun. A thin plate, sheet, or layer.

noun. undefined

noun. The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.

noun. The bladelike part of a kelp.

noun. A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other tissue.

noun. A thin scalelike or platelike structure, as one of the thin layers of sensitive vascular tissue in the hoof of a horse.

noun. A narrow bed of rock.

noun. A thin plate or scale.

noun. The inner table of the skull.

noun. Synonyms Lamina, lamella. In zoölogy and anatomy these words are usually absolutely synonymous, used interchangeably and without distinction. If there be a possible distinction, it is that lamella may oftener apply to something smaller or thinner than a lamina: for instance, the cover of a book is a lamina, containing leaves or lamellæ. Haeckel draws and maintains this distinction in embryology.

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

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

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

noun. A very thin layer of material.

noun. A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.

noun. The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.

noun. a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)

"You know the properties of thin laminae: each ray reflected from such a lamina is formed by the superposition of a ray reflected from the front side of the lamina on a ray reflected from the rear side."

cribrose lamina  dental lamina  denticulate lamina  dorsal lamina  dorsal laminæ  

laminal  laminar  laminate  laminectomy  laminotomy  

stamina  

...it  ceterarum  clypeo  conducta  constitutionem  

blade  film  flake  fold  foliation  

laminae