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Nature's plywood — overlapping layers that turn flimsy sheets into armor, mirrors, and unbreakable bone.
means Made up of, or arranged in, thin layers or plates — as in lamellar bone, lamellar armor of overlapping scales, or the lamellar structure of certain minerals and tissues.
from From Latin lamella, "thin plate or leaf," a diminutive of lamina, "thin sheet or layer" — the same lamina that gives us laminate. So a lamella is literally a "little sheet," and lamellar simply means built of such little sheets, stacked.
- Roman armor
- Lorica segmentata stacked metal strips into flexible plates
- Bone secret
- Lamellar layers make your skeleton crack-resistant
- Pearl shine
- Stacked aragonite lamellae create nacre's rainbow gleam
- Heat trap
- Layered structures store thermal energy in solar tech
- Mushroom gills
- Those underside ridges are technically lamellae
lamellar bone structure — human skeleton's mature compact bone with parallel collagen fibrils, replacing woven bone after ~4 months of remodeling
lamellar armor — historical armor used by mongol warriors and persian armies, consisting of small overlapping scales or plates sewn to leather backing
lamellar gills — fish respiratory organs with thin parallel sheets stacked like pages in a book, found in all fish species