a small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale
the gemstone's distinctive iridescence is caused by light passing from one lamella of crystal to another
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Recent Examples of lamellaIn addition, the floor-standing loudspeakers are adorned with aluminum lamellas inspired by Ferrari’s lateral side air vents.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2024 The historic finding mostly hinged on the architectural style of the ceiling and roof, called a lamella roof.—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024 Those vents are slotted to mimic the lamella structures on the undersides of mushrooms, and that design theme permeates the interior.—Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 3 Sep. 2023 The beak’s two yellow ridges, called the lamella and the cere, lit up.—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
The solution removes moisture from the nail plate to ensure a long-lasting finish and contains biotin to strengthen the nails.
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Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
One of the license-plate-reader cameras near East County Line Road and South Colorado Boulevard in Highlands Ranch alerted Douglas County deputies to a match for the suspect’s vehicle, Weekly said.
Known since the late 1980s for using erasure as a concept, Simmons extends his practice here into an architectural scale, transforming the main gallery into a vast blackboard environment where images emerge, blur, and refuse to fully disappear.