Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAM'IN, or LAM'IN-A
LAM'IN, or LAM'IN-A, n. [L. lamina; W. llavyn, from extending, W. llav.]
- A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; applied to the plates of minerals, bones, &c. – Encyc.
- A bone, or part of a bone, resembling a thin plate, such as the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone. – Parr.
- The lap of the ear. – Parr.
- The border, or the upper, broad or spreading part of the petal, in a polypetalous corol. – Martyn.
- The part of a leaf which is an expansion of the parenchyma or pith of the petiole. It is traversed by veins. – Lindley.
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