a. scientific. [f. LAMELLA + -OSE.] Arranged in or composed of lamellæ.
1752. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 418. The beak of the Anas is conver … the whole verge is furnished with transverse, lamellose teeth.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 571. Glomerate or lamellose.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca, II. 237. Upper valve limpet-like, smooth or concentrically lamellose.
1875. Blake, Zool., 266. The branchiæ are at the sides of the body,… mostly lamellose.
b. Comb. lamellose- (also quasi-L. lamelloso-)dentate a., having lamelliform teeth, as the bill of a duck; lamellose-stellate a., having lamellæ arranged in star-shaped groups.
1855. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Lamellosodentatus … lamellosodentate.
1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 88. Polypary conical, with base acuminate, cell single, terminal, lamellose-stellate. Ibid., II. 383. Bill with margins lamellosedentate internally.
