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: la-mel-la. The stress falls on "la".

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.