lamina

1. 1.

   a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)

   Broaderplate

   Narrowerlamina arcus vertebrae

Other forms of lamina

plural

laminae

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 lamina

What does lamina mean?

lamina means "a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)".

How many syllables are in lamina?

lamina has 3 syllables: lam-i-na. The stress falls on "lam". In IPA it is /ˈlæmənə/.

Is lamina a common word?

lamina 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.