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Webster 1913 Edition


Membranaceous

Memˊbra-na′ceous

,
Adj.
[L.
membranaceus
.]
1.
Same as
Membranous
.
Arbuthnot.
2.
(Bot.)
Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar.

Webster 1828 Edition


Membranaceous

MEMBRANA'CEOUS

,
Adj.
Belonging to a membrane; consisting of membranes; as a membraneous covering.
Birds of prey have membranaceous stomachs, not muscular.
1.
In botany, a membranaceous leaf has no distinguishable pulp between the two surfaces. In general, it denotes flatted or resembling parchment.

Definition 2024


membranaceous

membranaceous

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membranaceous (comparative more membranaceous, superlative most membranaceous)

  1. Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 75:
      "Nay he confirms what his Antagonist has wrote, partly by History, and partly by Reason; affirming that himself in his own Garden found two little birds with membranaceous wings utterly devoid of Legs, their form was near to that of a Bat's."

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