Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
membranous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
membranous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
membranous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, one of the most significant points in the HCV viral cycle is the formation of a replication complex, composed of the viral proteins, RNA and altered membranes in infected hepatocytes forming the so called membraneous web
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The eggs here instead become leathery, like a turtle, and the chicks are unable to break through the membraneous shell.
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The eggs here instead become leathery, like a turtle, and the chicks are unable to break through the membraneous shell.
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From her shoulder-blades extended broad wings of a glittering, semi-transparent, membraneous material, and these beautiful wings she folded as her feet touched the ground -- apparently without volition just as a bird folds its pinions when it alights, but really by touching a small protruberance set in a belt of white leather that crossed her full bosom.
Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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From her shoulder-blades extended broad wings of a glittering, semi-transparent, membraneous material, and these beautiful wings she folded as her feet touched the ground -- apparently without volition just as a bird folds its pinions when it alights, but really by touching a small protruberance set in a belt of white leather that crossed her full bosom.
"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010
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It makes sense that healthy, life affirming, growth enhancing policies should be based upon membraneous metaphors and models.
Printing: Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism 2008
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It makes sense that healthy, life affirming, growth enhancing policies should be based upon membraneous metaphors and models.
Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism 2008
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From Thursday to Monday was very deep time; not in the sense of “whoa, deep” though that too a lot of the time but rather that the con was like a membraneous bubble in which days stretched.
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I seemed to see the membraneous and cylindrical tubes tremble beneath the undulation of the waters.
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The Ocythoë Cranchii was often found inside the shell, and the sea was streaked as with cotton-flecks by lines of eggs several inches long, a mass of mucus with fine membraneous structure adhering to the rocks, and coagulating in spirits or salt water.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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