laminiplantar

English

Etymology

From lamina + Latin planta (“sole of the foot”).

Adjective

laminiplantar (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most songbirds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “laminiplantar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)