lamella

Other forms of lamella

plural

lamellae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lamella

What does lamella mean?

lamella means "any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lamella?

lamella has 3 syllables and divides as la-mel-la under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lamella?

Close synonyms include gill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lamella a common word?

lamella is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.