lamellate
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[edit] English
[edit] Adjective
lamellate
- Having at least some component segments being lengthened on one side and flattened into circles, making these segments look like a stack of dinner plates.
- The dung beetle had lamellate antennae.
[edit] Usage notes
This term is used especially to describe certain insect antennae in which the last segments are so shaped into a compact club of flat plates. Lamellate antennae are a form of clubbed, or clavate antennae.
[edit] Latin
[edit] Adjective
lāmellāte
- vocative masculine singular of lāmellātus
