a. Chiefly scientific. [f. prec. + -AR. Cf. F. lamellaire.] Consisting of, characterized by, or arranged in, lamellæ or thin plates or scales.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., I. 439. Its texture, lamellar or scaly.
1796. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. 244. Lamellar, by some called foliated, or sparry quartz.
1849. Dana, Geol., iii. (1850), 274. The lava is lamellar in structure.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 244. Convolvulaceæ … Stigmas capitate linear or lamellar.
1881. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., II. 34. If a magnet can be divided into simple magnetic shells, either closed or having their edges on the surface of the magnet, the distribution of magnetism is called Lamellar.
Hence Lamellarly adv., in thin plates or scales (Webster, 1828).
