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A curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
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See Veil, n., 3 (b).
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A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).
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A veil-like organ or part.
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The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusæ.
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A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.
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A fold on the inner side of the leaf-base in Isoetes.
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a ciliated pair of lobes, used for swimming and feeding by larval molluscs.
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A thin layer of accessory clouds pierced by cumuliform clouds. Occur with cumulus and cumulonimbus.
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is the soft palate or roof of the mouth.
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Soft palate (near back of roof of the mouth).
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membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap
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membrane initially completely investing the young sporophore of various mushrooms that is ruptured by growth; represented in the mature mushroom by a volva around lower part of stem and scales on upper surface of the cap
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a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking
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Latin = curtain; veli = of a curtain.
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L. veil. Anterior medullary velum.
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The Latin name for the soft palate.
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ˈviləm] - the soft palate.
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a membranous flap-like envelope which partially or wholly covers the sporangium.
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Ciliated organ used for locomotion and feeding in the veliger larval stage of oysters.
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a membranous covering; a veil.
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means a veil or curtain.
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An accessory cloud veil of great horizontal extent draped over or penetrated by cumuliform clouds. Velum occurs with cumulus and cumulonimbus. See cloud classification.
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The areas at the back of the mouth, including the soft palate and nasopharynx, which touch during swallowing and production of certain sounds.
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A thin, membranous covering enveloping young mushrooms, remnants of which may form a ring or spots.
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a membrane found on the subumbrella surface of jellyfishes of the Class Hydrozoa. Also a ciliated swimming organ of the veliger larvae. Shelf-like membrane structure on the subumbrella (ventral) surface, which extends from the outer edge to the manubrium. Synapomorphy of Hydrozoa2.
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