different between lamellar vs aenigmatite

English

Etymology

Compare French lamellaire.

Adjective

lamellar (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.
   • 2002, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. LaRocca, Morihiro Ogawa, Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 1991-2002, Metropolitan Museum of Art (?ISBN), page 45:

     Like scale armor (see cat, no. 38), lamellar armor was widely used in the ancient world, possibly originating in the Near East and spreading rapidly throughout Asia. Lamellar differs from scale armor in two principal ways.

   • 2006, Donald J. LaRocca, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, Metropolitan Museum of Art (?ISBN), page 51:

     The term “lamellar armor” refers to a type of armor made up of horizontal rows of small overlapping plates joined by leather lacing. The individual plates are referred to as lamella (singular) and lamellae (plural), literally meaning thin plates or ...

Related terms

• lame

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English

Alternative forms

• ænigmatite

Etymology

Greek ???????, riddle.

Noun

aenigmatite (countable and uncountable, plural aenigmatites)

1. (mineralogy) An inosilicate mineral of sodium, iron, and titanium, forming brown to black triclinic lamellar crystals.

Synonyms

• cossyrite

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Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Aenigmatite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “aenigmatite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.