velum

The velum projects from between the valves, in front of the small foot.

He pushed a piece of velum across to her.

The velum is well developed and used in swimming.

These have a muscular velum on the ventral surface, which allows them to move about.

Cleaned carefully, the velum could be reused again and again.

The words in gold on velum were there, in beautiful script but intelligible.

However, there is no frication at the velum.

The velum covers less than a quarter of the sporangium.

His first officer had presented him with a list of supplies that he needed to authorize, but the words on the velum blurred.

Cumulus velum clouds have an ice crystal veil over the growing top of the cloud.

The velum sometimes leaves a partial annular zone.

The body of these animals is robust and elevated, and has a velum, or anterior veil.

The velum, the locomotory and feeding organ, has bands of cilia running down it.

Their effect on the historical record was significant as the books were painstakingly reproduced on velum by monks across Europe.

A soft but substantial membrane called the velum stretches in a curve around the middle of this platform, and helps seal the door.

A prenasalized stop starts out with a lowered velum that raises during the occlusion.

At metamorphosis they lose their velum and undergo external and internal changes that produce the juvenile.

The larva uses the ciliated velum to swim as well as to bring food to its mouth.

After the food is brought to the mouth by the ciliated velum, it is moved down the digestive tract to the stomach.

The first 100 copies of Joyce's book were printed on Japanese velum and signed by the author.

With the velum closed, the speaker forces air out of the mouth using either the tongue or cheeks, as in the French expression of dismissal.

The veliger larva has a shell and ciliated velum.

Having a velum is characteristic of the hydrozoan medusae.

Piles of papers and large velum ledgers were stacked neatly atop a large oak desk.

Cumulonimbus velum.