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lamellate

Lamellate is an adjective used to describe structures composed of lamellae—thin, plate-like layers arranged in a laminated fashion. The word derives from lamella, Latin for a small plate.

In mycology, lamellate refers to mushrooms with gilled hymenium on lamellae (the gills) on the underside of

In animal biology and anatomy, lamellate structures include the Pacinian corpuscles, which have multiple concentric lamellae

In botany, chloroplasts contain lamellae—thylakoid membranes arranged into grana and connected by lamellae. This lamellar organization

In bone biology, lamellar bone is mature, organized into thin, parallel layers (lamellae) of collagen and mineralized

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