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la|mel|la
la|mel|la «luh MEHL uh», noun, plural -mel|lae «-MEHL ee», -mel|las.
1. a thin plate, scale, or layer, especially of flesh or bone.
2. one of the thin scales or plates composing some shells, as in bivalve mollusks.
3. Botany. a) one of the thin radiating plates or gills forming the spore-bearing layer of a mushroom. b) one of the erect scales appended to the corolla of some flowers. c) an erect sheet of cells on the midrib of a leaf in mosses.
╂[< Latin lāmella (diminutive) < lāmina thin plate, lamina]

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