Laminaria Definition

lămə-nârē-ə
noun
Any of a genus (Laminaria) of marine kelp having fluted, ribbonlike blades attached at one end to a stalk and holdfast.
Webster's New World
A small rod formed of dehydrated laminaria tissue, applied to the cervical os to stimulate dilation.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
  • genus Laminaria
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Laminariaceae — a genus of brown algae.

Wiktionary

Origin of Laminaria

  • New Latin Lāmināria (from Latin lāmina thin sheet, leaf)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Laminaria Sentence Examples

  • While there is a general tendency in the group to mucilaginous degeneration of the cell-wall, in Laminaria digitata there are also glands secreting a plentiful mucilage.

  • The intercalated growing region of Laminaria affords an example of another variety of growth in Phaeophyceae.

  • Laminaria sp., sporanges among paraphyses.

  • Thus Laminaria digitata, which characterizes the lowest zone, is only occasionally exposed at all, and then only for short periods of time.

  • A white efflorescence which appears on certain Brown Algae (Saccorhiza bulbosa, Laminaria saccharina), when they are dried in the air, is found to consist of mannite.

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Words Starting With

LLALAM

Words Ending With

AIARIA

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laminaria

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